People often say, ‘Dream because dreams cost nothing.’ Every day in India, countless women dream and make every possible effort to turn those dreams into reality. These women have made their family’s future their biggest dream.

When Sonu Davar learned about her daughter’s dream, she pondered about how to arrange such a considerable amount of money. Sonu’s daughter, Kripali Davar, aspired to become an air hostess, and she was ready to support her in attaining it.

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It was a challenge for a family of limited means, considering the expensive training required to become an air hostess. But Sonu didn’t give up her belief in herself or her daughter.

A self-help group helped Sonu realise how she could do this

But the challenge that really worried her was — where would she get so much money? In her quest, Sonu learned about self-help groups(SHG) and joined the Ganga Self-Help Group in her village in 2015.

By joining the group, she realized that making her and her daughter’s future dreams come true with the help of the government was possible. Sonu, after joining the group, opened a Kirana store (grocery store) and started working day and night. She used the earnings from her Kirana store to fund Kripali’s education and manage her family.

Sonu shares, “My family’s financial situation was not good. I joined the Ganga Self-Help Group in 2015, and since then, our circumstances have changed. I opened a Kirana store with the help of the SHG and worked hard day and night. I ensured that Kripali completed her education, up to the tenth grade, right in our village.”

Sonu needed more funds than that, so she began another business too
Sonu knew that running just a grocery store wouldn’t be enough to afford her daughter the training to become an air hostess. Therefore, she also started a tailoring business. She had decided that no matter what, she was going to help Kripali become an air hostess and be an example to the whole world.

After her schooling was done, Sonu took a loan of one lakh rupees with the help of the State Rural Livelihood Mission to send her daughter to Indore, a city in Madhya Pradesh, for further studies and air hostess training.

Today, Kripali has achieved her dream and has become a source of great pride for her mother.

Sonu’s daughter Kripali acknowledges her mother’s support
Sonu Davar’s daughter, Kripali Davar, says, “My mother worked extremely hard to bring me here. When I came to Indore, I could only see and think about the sky, dreaming that one day I would touch these heights. Today, as an air hostess I can proudly say, it is all because of one woman, and she is my mother. I am extremely happy to be the first girl from our village to reach this position.”

Today, Sonu Davar and her daughter Kripali Davar have become a source of inspiration and an example for everyone. Stories like these need to be shared so that women are not hesitant to dream and can openly say, ‘Yes, our dreams can come true, and we can achieve whatever we want!”

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