 "Women at work at Stree Shakti")
When Sunita Thapli approached Chinni Swamy, who lived with her husband in Uttarakhand’s Purkal village, for help, she didn’t realise she would indirectly be doing a favour to a host of women from the village that has a population of around 2,000.
Thapli had two children and a husband with a mental disability and was thus dependent on her, to feed. She was desperate for any kind of work and told Swamy that she had a sewing machine and could stitch.
More out of Thapli’s need than her own, Swamy found some fabrics lying around and decided to teach her
