| Success story of the Entrepreneur - Case Study-29 |
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Page 30 of 55 Case Study-30About the Entrepreneur  Name: Sobha MirdhaLocation: Phulajari Village, Anugul, Orissa Name of the SHG: Past Activity: Daily Wages Present Activity: Entrepreneur Name of the Business unit: Goatery farm Previous MI: Rs. 25 /per day Present MI: Rs. 2,500-3,000 Sobha Mirdha is a 23 years old woman living with her family at Phulajari village, of Angul district, Orissa. She is now a role model of entrepreneurship quality for her village development and most of the villagers have a great appreciation for her initiative in ensuring a sustainable livelihood option for her family. Now she is proud of being a SHG member of BISWA and she is able to provide Rs. 2,500- 3,000 (per month) to her family financial support.In past, her family condition was in a very feeble situation. Because she was merely a daily laborer and her husband was a farmer. The requirement of day to day life is not fulfill by the small amount of Rs.750. And she has also two children in educational stage, but she was not capable to provide proper education to her children. With the intervention of BISWA in the village, she became a member of “BISWA SHG”. And gets much more benefit from it. When she aware about the finance availability for the poor through micro finance of BISWA. She got confident to be self-independent. In an awareness meeting she became aware about to start a small business with support of BISWA. And she got a loan of 18,000/- to start a small business. And she was in a thought to start a sustainable business with can cater the family daily needs. And BISWA provided her training and guidance to start the Goattery farm in the area. At first she was not clear about the market but as the small enterprise established and got a very good response from the locals as well as urbans. Initially she faced many difficulties to start the business alone, but now her husband also involved in it business and both are doing very good job to development the business in sustainable manner. Now they were getting Rs. 2,500-3,000 in a month.Now she is capable to provide money to educate her children and living happy family life. |
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