News & Resources Sunita Rani is very happy now and she dreams about a best house to live in and to provide best things for her son
Sunita Rani is very happy now and she dreams about a best house to live in and to provide best things for her son
Sunita Rani is only 25. She’s a widow and the mother of a young son. Her late husband, Kuldeep Singh, had been a well-known tailor in their village, Kotli, and provided well for his wife and son. But sadly he died from a heart attack when their son was only 3 months old. Despite his family being a large one, support for Sunita Rani was not there and she gradually found herself without the means to earn a living.
Sunita Rani is illiterate and had no skills with which to earn money and so starting doing work as a servant in other peoples’ houses. Unfortunately, the money from that work was nowhere near enough to make ends meet and she often had to borrow money to be even able to buy vegetables for herself and her son.
When Sunita Rani’s son became ill, she didn’t have any money to pay for his medical treatment. Her in-laws didn’t help her and she had to ask her own parents, which they provided within their own meagre means. All this time she has been living in a single room with a leaking roof, which during the monsoon means all her possessions get wet and damaged.
Until MDVL opened a Community Dairy Unit in her village this year, where she now keeps five cows and is earning income through her entrepreneurship, Sunita Rani had absolutely no hope. Now, she says the nutrition she can provide her son has already improved as she regularly buys the much needed vegetables. Additionally, she plans to slowly improve her living conditions with the money she earns from her business and dreams of providing a better life for her son.
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