This initiative is the brainchild of Kuheli Ray Bhattacharya (KRBs). As part of the process of inclusivity, her vision encompasses twin objectives, empowerment of rural women and equal opportunities for underprivileged children in rural India.

The only reason that they say, ‘Women and children first’ is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
– Jean Kerr

That we believe is the path to progress

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.

Women’s empowerment is very essential for the development of society and to a vibrant India of the future.

Empowerment means individuals acquiring the power to think and act freely, exercises choice and fulfil their potential as full and equal members of society. As per the United National Development Fund for women (UNIFEM), the term women’s empowerment means:

• Acquiring knowledge and understanding of gender relations and the ways in which these relations may be changed.
• Developing a sense of self-worth, a belief in one’s ability to secure desired changes and the right to control one’s life.
• Gaining the ability to generate choices exercise bargaining power.
• Developing the ability to organize and influence the direction of social change, to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally. Thus, empowerment means a psychological sense of personal control or influence and a concern with actual social influence, political power and legal rights. It is a multi-level construct referring to individuals, organizations and community. It is an international, ongoing process centred in the local community, involving mutual respect, critical reflection, caring and group participation, through which people lacking an equal share of valued resources gain greater access to the control over these resources.

I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
– Annie Besant