From village to boardroom: how Karm Trust is empowering women
The Karm Trust is helping women from rural backgrounds achieve financial independence through educational fellowships and professional mentorship. The initiative aims to address the significant gender gap in philanthropic funding in India.
Why it matters
It highlights the impact of targeted private philanthropy on social mobility and gender equality in developing economies.
Ansuiya, who hails from a family of migrant workers from Bundelkhand, was born at a construction site in Sonipat, Haryana, and spent the first five years of her life there. “No one in my family had gone to school, and I was expected to get married young. But when I moved to my grandparents’ village, they enrolled me in a government primary school,” she said.
The article reports on a social initiative with a positive, human-interest focus without taking a political stance.
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