Transform Rural India

Geeta Devda was married at 16 and pulled out of school in Class 10.

When she joined a self-help group in Balipur in years later, she began to understand, for the first time, what she herself had been denied.

With training from TRI on gender, rights and local governance, that understanding became action. She started helping women in her village know their rights and how to act on them.

What followed were:

✅ 60+ domestic violence cases reported
✅ Women sitting equally in Gram Sabha meetings
✅ A community that now knows how to use the system

This is what community-first development looks like, not a programme delivering to people, but people who now know how to demand what is theirs.

Read Geeta's full story, as featured in TheBetterIndia https://thebetterindia.com/changemakers/rural-women-empowerment-balipur-geeta-devda-collective-action-transform-rural-india-11885992

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