खबर लहरिया Blog Voice, Agency & Empowerment: Stories from the margins Part 2

Voice, Agency & Empowerment: Stories from the margins Part 2

This series is an attempt to hold space for stories of women from Bundelkhand and beyond; women who don’t come from privilege but are pushing boundaries in their own way and enabling others along the way. These are women who we simply don’t hear enough about. Kavita: Driven By Duty In the quiet village of Gathewara in Madhya Pradesh, every morning, 14 year-old Kavita can be seen deftly riding a motorcycle through the bumpy roads of the village to deliver milk to Chhatarpur city. Kavita began delivering milk on a bicycle when her parents needed extra financial support. With a family of nine and no land of their own, her parents relied on work in others’ farms. So when her