Impact

In the rural heartlands of Karor village, Haryana, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Jamuna Devi, a 35-year-old woman, once worked as a farmhand on her husband’s land...

Kalyani Tandon is a dedicated SoochnaPreneur from Mohdi village, Chhattisgarh, who is revolutionizing the way rural communities'...

Devpura is a small, underdeveloped village in the Neemuch district, inhabited primarily by...

I was given digital training, a printer, a tablet and a lot of guidance from the DEF team. I never thought that a printer and a tablet could change my life completely.

SoochnaPreneur is a rural entrepreneurship-based project aimed at empowering youth in Indian villages to sustain their livelihood by providing information and access to...

Alam Khan got an Appreciation Certificate for his constant efforts in providing Covid 19 vaccination. He helped in mobilising 8,473 citizens along with interventions of other […]

It took a lot of time and effort to make people understand. But it was a rewarding process; I knew that me providing this information to them made them safer. This is a testimonial from Poonam Bai, DEF’s SoochnaPreneur from Alwar.

Motivated by the success of the SoochnaPreneur program DEF launched the Samarth SoochnaPreneur program that aims to empower PwDs...

Ramabai lives with her two boys, Sitaram and Radhe, in Madhya Pradesh. The sole breadwinner due to her husband’s untimely death, she struggles to make ends […]

Mohini, a resident of Saidanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is a housewife. Due to her husband’s busy schedule she was unable to get regular checkups during her pregnancy. […]

Jamuna Devi, wife of Arun Kumar is a 35 years old Farmer. She is a resident of Karor village, a place in the remote corners of […]

My name is Bina and my husband’s name is Omprakash. I am a farmer and a resident of Laxmangarh tehsil of Berla village and a mother […]

Sundari lives in Untvaal village of Alwar district in Rajasthan with her family. Belonging to a Below Poverty Line (BPL) family, she’s eligible to receive ration […]

Chunni Devi lives with her husband in Alwar’s Belaka village. The only financial support she received was the pension but to withdraw the amount she had […]

Ritesh Kujur lives in small village Malar under Kundi in Jharkhand’s Ranchi with his family. His father is a farmer and works in the field for […]

Yasmeen became a mother of three at a very young age. She lost her husband which made her a sole earner in the family. The responsibility […]

In Damrapur village of Mainatand block of West Champaran district lives a man named Shir Jalim Ram. He leaves with his wife Lalchunni Devi and five […]

Budhni Bara lives with her five children in Bindhani Village of Itki block. She supports her family by doing labour work as her husband died years […]

The story of Sahajnath Mehto is filled with pain and sorrow. His old age is a curse for him. Sahajnath Mehto lives in Korabar village of […]

Kalamani Devi is a hard working lady and use to work in the paddy field for her livelihood. Rest of the months she work as a […]

Digital Empowerment Foundation has been recognised as a winner of the Blackstone Gives Back Challenge, receiving the 1st Prize Award of USD 175,000 to further strengthen community empowerment initiatives.

Digital Empowerment Foundation is the recipient of the 2021 Justice Sunanda Bhandare Award for its crucial role in helping to bridge India’s digital gender gap...

On 11 January 2021, the World Bank Group and CES announced the winners of the Global Tech Challenge: Solutions for Women, launched at CES 2020.