Ritu spent 18 months setting up a women weavers’ enterprise called Kalamaitri in Maheshwar town by the Narmade river. Some of her findings are documented here.
Author: Ritu Pant
2022 fellow, working with Chaitanya WISE in Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh. WISE has been promoting a Women’s Entrepreneurial Network (WEN) that enables women to benefit from economies of scale, and maximize employment generation as well as value creation. Ritu builds robust value chains promoting other WENs and establishing a producer company.
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