Stories
Longer accounts of what change actually looks like — written up from the field, with names and places intact.
Bhadva, Kotda Sangani, Rajkot
Bhadva rebuilt its own water, sanitation and enterprise base — and took first rank for cleanliness in Rajkot district while doing it.
Read the storyVeraval, Kotda Sangani, Rajkot
Kajalben Vastarpra is a Krishi Sakhi in Veraval. She campaigned village to village for cow-based natural farming, and now holds office in the local Krushi Mandal.
Read the storyPanchvada, Jasdan, Rajkot
Shitalben Desani could not work outside the home. She now has two incomes inside it — as a Krishi Sakhi and as an artisan.
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Ambada, Gir Somnath
Shraddhaben Katariya runs Khushi Beauty Parlour from her home in Ambada. In wedding season it earns more than most rural jobs pay in three months.
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Derdi Kumbhaji, Rajkot
Derdi Kumbhaji looked at a barren plot nobody was using and decided to plant it. The saplings have doubled in height since.
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Juna Rajpipla, Kotda Sangani, Rajkot
Damjibhai Thummar had never grown pigeon pea alongside groundnut. When unseasonal rain halved his groundnut yield, the second crop earned nearly twice what the first one did.
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Dhokadva, Amreli district
Payalben Malvi did not just learn a trade in Dhokadva. She taught it to forty women, then handed over part of her own client book so they would have work from the first week.
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Khatriwada, Gir Somnath
Bharatbhai Bambhaniya farms saline coastal soil at Khatriwada. He ignored the SSKK facilitators for a long time before he listened.
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Junagadh and Bhavnagar
Ten people from the Junagadh and Bhavnagar leprosy colonies were trained in a trade. Five years later the mandap business they built held ₹13 lakh in assets and fed seven families — and, more to the point, the town had to do business with them.
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