Stories

The women who carry it.

Students who finished the curriculum, and the Community Resource Persons who came back to teach it. In their own words.

The full cohort gathered together under the programme banner

Baruipur · [ YEAR ] · [ PHOTOGRAPHER ]

§  ·  A note on consent

§ 01  ·  Community Resource Persons

Students first, facilitators second.

Most women teaching today sat in a cohort themselves, not long before. One of them:

[ Name ]

Community Resource Person  ·  Baruipur, West Bengal

A Community Resource Person at a workshop

[ Original-language quote ]

[ Quote — in her own words ]

[ Name ]  ·  spoken in Bengali

[ Her story — who she is, what the curriculum changed for her, and why she came back to teach it. ]

Participants taking notes during a session
The cohort gathered for a session

From a workshop in Baruipur

[ A line from the room — in her own words ]
[ Name ]  ·  Community Resource Person · Baruipur

§ 02  ·  Students

Women who finished all ten modules.

Most students simply take the curriculum home and put it to work. Two on what changed:

[ Name ]

Graduate  ·  Baruipur, West Bengal

A graduate of the Knowing Your Money curriculum

[ Original-language quote ]

[ Quote — in her own words ]

[ Name ]  ·  spoken in Bengali

[ Her story — what changed for her household after the ten modules. ]

Notes and worksheets from the session
The cohort during a workshop

Pictured by her hands

Graduate · anonymous  ·  Baruipur, West Bengal

[ PHOTO · DETAIL ][ her hands · counting the week's savings ]

[ Original-language quote ]

[ Quote — in her own words ]

Anonymous  ·  pictured by request

[ Her story — told on her terms, name and face withheld by request. ]

[ PHOTO · DETAIL ][ the tin where she keeps it ]
[ PHOTO · WORKSHOP ][ her cohort · faces withheld ]

§ 03  ·  Video testimonials

Two short testimonials, filmed at workshops. Subtitled in English.

[ VIDEO · [ TIME ] ][ [ Name ] · on becoming a facilitator ]
[ CLIP ][ A facilitator on the first cohort she taught. ]
Baruipur · [ YEAR ] · Bengali, English subtitles
[ VIDEO · [ TIME ] ][ [ Name ] · on the notebook ]
[ CLIP ][ A graduate on the week she opened her account. ]
Baruipur · [ YEAR ] · Bengali, English subtitles