Ahead of Women’s Day, meet Jaishree Shetole who benefited from a Gender Integrated Accelerated Entrepreneurship Development Program (AEDP) and secured her children’s future.

New Delhi: Institutional support, policy frameworks, literacy, numeracy, technical as well as vocational training can help India’s rural women to access better income-generating opportunities. Jaishree Shetole, a 25-year-old entrepreneur from Niwali Barwani, Madhya Pradesh, has perfectly exemplified of how mentorship and requisite training can help break generational cycles of poverty and gender oppression.