Gramin Mahila Vikas Sansthan

Rukma Devi is a 40 year old Jat woman residing at Khayda village in Bhinai tehsil of Ajmer district. Her husband Hagama Lal is a farmer, and an illiterate. The couple has five children, two boys and three girls. Married at the tender age of 16 years, she worked at her home, assisted her husband in

Twenty-nine year old Hagami Devi is wife of Shankar Singh and resides at Danta village of Ajmer district. Educated up to standard 3, Hagami Devi was married at the age of 14 years. While doing domestic chores like millions of rural women, she gave birth to three boys. With the motivation of her

Chanta Devi is a Gujjar woman residing at Khayda village in Bhinai tehsil of Ajmer district. Though she is very poor as her husband is a labourer, she has dreams of livelihood, empowerment, education, good food, health and clothes for her and her family. Above all she also has dreams of

Ganga, aged 15 years at the time of writing this case study, is daughter of Ram Chandra, residing at Bubani in Ajmer district. When she was just 8 years old, her father started taking her to stone mines for help. Every morning she accompanied her father to work and broke stones with hammer. Her

Guranath, a Scheduled Tribe, son of Bannanath belongs to an extremely poor family. He belongs to Kalbelia caste. His father is landless and does not have a home. The family moves to other places for earning and is ready to undertake even the riskiest of works. The children in the family work for