Indu Singh has been a teacher her entire life. For 25 years, she has been regularly interacting with parents, especially mothers of her students, to discuss their children’s academic progress and to know more about them. During these conversations, Indu realized that it was not only children who were in need of education but their mothers too.
“Most of the mothers were housewives and hardly anyone had pursued education beyond the Class 10. While talking to them, I felt that they needed some purpose; some motivation in their lives. They needed to be encouraged to do something, to learn something that would be beneficial for them in the long run,” says the 56-yearold. With this goal, she resigned as the principal of her school in 2012, to start a vocational training institute for women, called the Ipsha Samaj Kalyan Kendra.
Indu researched different courses and finally started a training course for women....
