Vadodara: Up to about two months ago, he was a happy woman who was married living in the Bhayli area with her husband and two children.
But the second wave of Covid left Barot Asha who was broken to grab her husband Raman and along with his happiness of his marriage.
Asha forty years old, who never worked until then, was abandoned high and dry.
“I don’t know how I will start earning.
Fortunately, I found the Napkin Sanitation Manufacturing Unit which began in my area two months ago by the Vatsalya Foundation.
Women who work in the unit produce a decent amount to sustain their household,” Asha, Who decided to join the unit to make a living, to Ti.
“I underwent training to make Napkins sanitation and start working full time.
I made a decent income now and I am happy that I can educate my children.
I am not afraid anymore,” Asha said.
Like him, about nine other women who lose their income members in the family, or lose work working in the unit.
Kalpana Ahirao, 34, was confused when his father-in-law died of Covid.
“I am a single mother and we depend on my father-in-law’s retirement.
After his death, I do not understand how to meet the needs.
Then I met Payal Rao who had started this sanitation assembly unit in Bhayli and I joined them.
Today, I take care of the family I, “said the mother who was confident of the two girls.Swati Bedekar, who was running the Vatsalya Foundation, said that the idea behind starting this unit was to provide assistance to women who lost their husbands or members of their family in a pandemic.
“Many of them never worked in their lives and they did not understand how to defend their families.
We funded and set up this unit in Bhayli so that women like that can work and make a living,” Bedekar told Tii and added these women to make this woman About 20,000 women’s sanitary napkins every month.
“When my husband lost his job during the second wave of Covid, I decided to take responsibility for my family.
I started this unit with the help of Swati Bedekar two months ago and I am happy that many other women like I am now able to maintain themselves, “said Payal Rao 35 years old.