“ I love my tuition centre so much. I love dancing and playing games with my classmates. My favourite subject is maths.I want to become a mathematician. I can help my mother buy things from the shop and calculate money so the shopkeeper can’t cheat us.”

”I enjoy making pickles. Now I can earn money to buy household items and toffees for my child. We sell a bottle for 50 rupees, so we earn an amount of 25 rupees as profit per bottle. I can stay with my family and don’t need to search for work”.

“We didn’t know that sarees can be made from banana fibre. We weave sarees from the yarns made by mixing banana fibre, cotton and silk. We use colours from plants to dye the saree. The saree looks so beautiful after the whole process. We get a good profit for our effort by selling it. We are self- depended and can take care of our family by ourselves.”

“Earlier, when we manually threshed pepper, we could only obtain less quantity of pepper, but after using the threshing machine, amount of pepper lost is lesser. Damage to small seeds has also been reduced. Now we get a fair price for pepper, and our Kanniyamman group has earned a profit of 70000 rupees. We had never earned such a good amount of profit”

“I couldn’t see anything clearly before. I had surgery for free, and now I can see everything clearly. At first, I was really scared to do the operation, but the doctor consoled me and cleared all my concerns. Now I am happy that I can see my grandchildren’s faces clearly.”