Chetna Gala Sinha: How women in rural India turned courage into capital
Chetna Gala Sinha: Kaip Indijos kaimo moterys drąsą pavertė kapitalu
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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save,
from India whom I've met.
su kuriomis man teko susidurti.
in my journey of my life.
to go to school,
mokykloje,
who did extraordinary things
darbus:
staying and living in India
Indijos kaime.
to work in rural India.
dynamic young farmer-leader
lyderį –
which did not have running water
and friends were horrified.
ir aplinkinius.
to open a saving account.
taupomąją sąskaitą
galėtum sutaupyti?
because I want to buy a plastic sheet
plėvelei,
10 rupijų –
the account of Kantabai.
Kantabai sąskaitą,
any loan from the bank.
or grant from the government.
was to have a safe place
the account of Kantabai,
sąskaitą,
for women like Kantabai to save?
tokioms, kaip Kantabai, kaupti santaupas?
to Reserve Bank of India.
bankininkavimo licencijai gauti.
that we cannot issue a license
licencijos
members who are nonliterate.
because our women are nonliterate.
moterys – neraštingos.
that after working the whole day,
po ilgos darbo dienos
and learn to read and write.
rašyti.
to Reserve Bank of India.
moterų.
the officer of Reserve Bank,
because we cannot read and write.
skaityti ir rašyti,
because we are nonliterate."
when we were growing,
for our noneducation."
išsilavinusios.
the interest of any principal amount."
nuo bet kokios sumos.“
without a calculator
be skaičiuotuvų,
women are banking with us
klienčių,
than 20 million dollars of capital.
dolerių sumą.
asking for a business plan.
pageidaujančių verslo plano.
for herself and her family.
were not able to come to the bank
pačios ateiti į banką,
are not coming to the bank,
banko,
to remember a PIN number.
išmokti PIN kodą.
"We don't want a PIN number.
remember the PIN number;
to remember the PIN number.
with biometric,
biometrine.
financial transaction
skaitmeninius finansinius pavedimus
can steal my PIN number
piršto“.
which I have always learned from women:
išmoktą pamoką:
to poor people.
neturtingiesiems.
paėmė paskolą.
mortgaging your precious jewelry
brangius papuošalus
that it's a terrible drought?
aplink?
food and fodder for my animals."
pašaro gyvuliams.“
"Can I mortgage gold and get water?"
galiu nusipirkti vandens?“
"You're working in the village
kaime
the cattle camp in the area.
stovyklavietę,
their animals to one place
gyvulius,
in the cattle camp
uždarėme.
a regular show on the radio."
tarė ji.
"Kerabai, you cannot read and write.
nemokėdama skaityti ir rašyti,
laidą –
invited by all of the radios,
and she does the show.
I started singing."
alkį.“
overcome so many obstacles --
mūsų moterys –
in a business school,
insemination in goats.
apvaisinti ožkas.
difficult for Sunita
from an untouchable caste.
goat deliveries in the region
mūsų apylinkėje,
apdovanojimą,
to see an untouchable,
milžiniška neliečiamosios,
at the entrance of the village.
kaimą.
in the house, in her house,
do not go to an untouchable's house
į neliečiamųjų namus,
ar vandens.
the gathering of the village.
susirinkime.
caste conditioning in India.
įtaką Indijoje.
the younger generations do.
kartą.
to represent India in field hockey.
riedulio varžybose.
in 2020 Olympics, Tokyo.
2020 metais.
a very poor shepherd community.
bendruomenei.
more proud of her.
like Sarita, Kerabai, Sunita,
kaip Sarita, Kerabai, Sunita –
that they do not have anything to say,
neturi, ką pasakyti,
pasidalinti.
with these women.
moterimis.
rural women's bank.
moterų banką.
to go to National Stock Exchange
biržą
to micro rural women entrepreneurs.
women's bank in the world.
pasaulyje.
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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