called her and she was there, the woman behind the lush green fields , the woman behind the smiles of thousands of women from her district, the inspiration behind the hundreds of watersheds , irrigating the once barren hillock, the force behind the self help groups, united into one community of self reliant females.
Who says that women empowerment is only the talk of tea time topics ? Who says that those residing in villages can't stand for a cause?
Jaya Devi, the Green Lady Of Bihar
I had a conversation with her . That which shook me was that she had reduced her work because she felt that there was no one who really cared for women of her kind.
Although she has been awarded by a leadership title but is this going to be an answer to those tiring evenings, when she awaited some sincere assistance from the brighter section of the society for the education or well being of her children and received nothing but merely some shallow words of praises, mini loans from NABARD and the minute fractions of shramdaan, the rest remained to be only a wish ....
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Fighting the gruesome acts of the naxalites, the burning bondage by the money lenders and the crime against women , the villagers of Munger district had lost faith in humanity but Jaya Devi , the child bride took to the cause of liberating them from the perils of panic.
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.Sisters of NOTRE DAME ACADEMY, Jamalpur inspired her to form self help groups and she took their words as the spark to Kindle the flame of unison. Groups soon became a wide community, every woman started generating income by making agriculture as their source of income... Call Jaya Devi +916200450833 Read more about her on KoffeeKonversations on substack Share the post.
