She is a 22-year-old girl born to a poor family in Haryana.She lost her father at a very young age. Sushma's mother managed to bring up her two children with great difficulty by selling milk. Sushma and her sister Manju used to watch the daily struggle their mother was going through and to help her earn a decent living they joined Literacy India for a six month computer course. Once they finished the course they decided to learn driving much against the wishes of their family. Fortunately Literacy India was able to enroll them for a driving course from IDTR Ghaziabad; a division of Maruti Udyog Ltd.Sushma was one of the best amongst her batch of ten and was offered a job in Maruti as a driver. During her training period she overcame many hindrances and resentment from her family and villagers. She was the only lady car parking driver amongst 250 .drivers of Maruti Udyog Ltd. Her male colleagues attempted to discourage her in the job insisting that this was not a job suitable for girls. Sushma overcame all odds and emerged as a superior performer in this male bastion.
Maruti openly acknowledged her performance to be superior to the more experienced male drivers. Today on seeing her achievements she has not only made her family and friends feel proud but also is an inspiration for other girls of her village to follow. On recognizing her skills and motivation, Maruti appointed Sushma as Senior Instructor when Maruti launched the concept of driving schools attached with prominent dealers. Her success is a pointer that with grit and determination nothing is impossible. She is now a constant source of encouragement and inspiration to a new batch of girls who have enrolled for driving training.
Sandeep Kumar
Comes from a village in UP and his father is a security guard. He studied at various Government schools and came to Literacy India to take a course in Computer application. He was quite enterprising and talented. After completing the course, he opted to be a Faculty member with Literacy India. With his experience and communication skills he was recommended and placed with B-CUBE a call centre in Gurgaon as customer care executive. While at Literacy India he had also participated in a workshop for encouraging self-employment. With his experience in B-CUBE Sandeep ventured out on his ownand established a Computer Coaching centre at Bijwasan with a loan from a bank in February 2008. He is now running his own centre and is providing for his family.
Manoj Sansanwal
22 years old, he belongs to a very poor family. His father died when he was 5 years. His mother used to sell milk to earn a living. Manoj completed his Computer Course at Literacy India and was a part of the faculty after his graduating from the course. He opted to join Sandeep Kumar in his business venture and is doing quite well for himself.
Santosh
Santosh is only 23 years old; she was recently widowed and has the responsibility of raising two children at such a young age. She had completed her 10th class and was confused of how to provide for her family who were now her responsibility. She joined the Indha project of Literacy India where she was given guidance and training on how to make products to earn a living She undertook a six months training program to learn paper products making. She excelled in her course and her hard work and perseverance has helped her to become the store manager for Indha at our Bajghera Campus. She is now able to earn a decent salary for her family and also educate her children.
Bindalal
A migrant from Bihar, he lives with his elder brother. He joined Literacy India under the Karigari program and learnt DTP and Computer soft skills for six months. Bindalal attended the entire course on Personality grooming and E-ticketing sponsored by Youth reach. He is one of our beneficiaries who has been placed with B-CUBE as a customer care executive and is doing very well. He aspires to be a software engineer and is doing his BCA from IGNOU.
Nisha
She is a 20 year old girl supporting a family of five. Her father had an accident a year back and was unable to work and provide for the family.She undertook a one year training couse at our Daulatabad center and due to sheer hard work and dedication she has now become an instructor at the center. She also designs bags during her spare time and is one of the best designers in the project.
Yogesh Kumar
He belongs to a middle class family of village chauma and came to us when he was 20 years old. He joined our computer application course but was confused about a choice of careers. He was provided motivation and guidance by one of our volunteers Maj Gen Verma .He also undertook career counseling during his one year at Literacy India. He joined TMI academy and did a 6 months course in E-Ticketing with the help of Youth Reach. We then we placed him with B-Cube a call centre based in gurgaon where he is performing very well.
Manju Devi
She is a 45 year old woman whose husband works at a local ‘Dhaba’ and earns a meager income of Rs.2200 per month. The couple have six children between the age group of 8-17 years. The family has migrated from Bihar and stays in a slum of Saidulajab village. The family has been facing severe financial problems and finds it difficult to make both ends meet.Manju Devi enrolled for tailoring classes at our Neb Sarai Center to learn basic embroidery and tailoring skills and stitching clothes to earn some money to add to the meagre family income.
Indha means, ‘The Broad Base’ on which the Village woman carries number of water pots over her head. Same broad base,in literal term, will enable these women to carry a
