Chetna Gala Sinha: How women in rural India turned courage into capital
چنتا گالا سینها: چطور زنان در مناطق روستایی هند جسارت را به سرمایه تبدیل کردند
Chetna Gala Sinha is the founder and chair of the Mann Deshi Bank, aimed at the needs of rural women micro-entrepreneurs in India. Full bio
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from India whom I've met.
استثنایی از هند که ملاقاتشان کردهام.
in my journey of my life.
راهنماییام میکنند.
to go to school,
who did extraordinary things
staying and living in India
در روستاهای هند میکرد.
to work in rural India.
dynamic young farmer-leader
پرجنب و جوش و خوشقامتی شدم
which did not have running water
and friends were horrified.
to open a saving account.
حساب پسانداز باز کنم.
because I want to buy a plastic sheet
تا قبل از رسیدن موسم باران
روزانه ۱۰ روپیه پسانداز کند --
the account of Kantabai.
any loan from the bank.
or grant from the government.
was to have a safe place
برای پسانداز پولی بود
the account of Kantabai,
کانتابای حساب باز نمیکنند،
for women like Kantabai to save?
فرصت پسانداز کردن بدهد؟
to Reserve Bank of India.
that we cannot issue a license
نمیتوانیم به بانکی مجوز
members who are nonliterate.
اعضای بیسواد را میکند.
because our women are nonliterate.
نمیتوانیم مجوز بگیریم.
that after working the whole day,
and learn to read and write.
تا خواندن و نوشتن یاد بگیرند.
to Reserve Bank of India.
تا بانک مرکزی هند همراهی کردند.
the officer of Reserve Bank,
because we cannot read and write.
because we are nonliterate."
چون خواندن و نوشتن بلد نبودیم.
when we were growing,
بزرگ میشدیم که مدرسهای نبود.
for our noneducation."
نمیتوانیم بخوانیم و بنویسیم
the interest of any principal amount."
without a calculator
بدون ماشین حساب این کار را کنند
women are banking with us
than 20 million dollars of capital.
asking for a business plan.
طرح تجاری نمیخواهد.
for herself and her family.
were not able to come to the bank
قادر نبودند به بانک بیایند
کار کردن از دست میدادند.
are not coming to the bank,
to remember a PIN number.
به خاطر سپردن شماره پین است.
"We don't want a PIN number.
remember the PIN number;
to remember the PIN number.
with biometric,
با بیومتریک وصل میکنیم،
financial transaction
can steal my PIN number
which I have always learned from women:
همیشگی من از این زنان:
to poor people.
به مردم فقیر ارائه نکنید.
mortgaging your precious jewelry
جواهرات قیمتیات را گرو میگذاری
that it's a terrible drought?
چه خشکسالی وحشتناکی است؟
food and fodder for my animals."
و علوفه برای دام بخرم.»
"Can I mortgage gold and get water?"
طلا گرو بگذارم و آب بگیرم؟»
"You're working in the village
«شما در روستا کار میکنید
the cattle camp in the area.
برای احشام در منطقه راه بیندازیم.
their animals to one place
حیوانات خود را به یک محل بیاورند
in the cattle camp
a regular show on the radio."
خودم را داشته باشم.
"Kerabai, you cannot read and write.
تو که خواندن و نوشتن بلد نیستی.
invited by all of the radios,
and she does the show.
I started singing."
آواز خواندن را شروع کردم.»
overcome so many obstacles --
بر موانع زیادی فائق میآیند --
in a business school,
insemination in goats.
difficult for Sunita
from an untouchable caste.
goat deliveries in the region
to see an untouchable,
at the entrance of the village.
in the house, in her house,
do not go to an untouchable's house
پا به خانه نجسها نمیگذارند
the gathering of the village.
caste conditioning in India.
در هند را شکست.
the younger generations do.
to represent India in field hockey.
روی چمن نماینده هند باشد.
in 2020 Olympics, Tokyo.
a very poor shepherd community.
more proud of her.
like Sarita, Kerabai, Sunita,
کرابای، سونیتا هستند
that they do not have anything to say,
که چیزی برای گفتن ندارند،
with these women.
که با این زنان کار میکنم.
rural women's bank.
to go to National Stock Exchange
به بورس ملی هل میدهند
to micro rural women entrepreneurs.
کارآفرین خردهپای روستایی دایر شود.
women's bank in the world.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chetna Gala Sinha - Banker, social entrepreneurChetna Gala Sinha is the founder and chair of the Mann Deshi Bank, aimed at the needs of rural women micro-entrepreneurs in India.
Why you should listen
Chetna Gala Sinha is a passionate listener who respects risk-takers -- which makes her a powerful force in the banking world. A longtime activist and farmer, in 1997 she set up the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, India's first bank for and by rural women. Today, the Mann Deshi Bank has 90,000 account holders, manages business of more than Rs. 150 crores (or 22 million dollars) and regularly creates new financial products to support the needs of female micro-entrepreneurs. In 2006, Sinha founded the first business school for rural women in India, and in 2013, she launched a toll-free helpline and the first Chambers of Commerce for women micro-entrepreneurs in the country. In 2012, she set up a community empowerment program for farmers that supports water conservation; it has built ten check dams and impacted 50,000 people.
In January 2018, Sinha served as a co-chair of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and in November 2017, she was honored with a leadership award from Forbes India.
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