Once migrant labourers at brick kilns, women in Lohardaga now farm their land and rear pigs

After years of moving from place to place looking for an income, women in Lohardaga district of Jharkhand find empowerment in a programme called End Ultra Poverty that is helping them stay home and practise agriculture and animal husbandry.

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Naren Srinivasan

Naren is Senior Manager – Product, Economic Inclusion Program (EIP) at The/Nudge Institut

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