Thread by @mysaltapp

- SALT Story -

“I don’t know whether to be happy or sad that my story is not unusual. If I just say that I was born to a farmer in a Solapur village, you will get the drift. My mother was very young and used to everything that comes with being a mother of five girls." (1/10)

"As the eldest, I grew up determined to be the son. Fortunately, I was good at Math. I saved myself from early marriage by getting into an engineering college on merit. My sisters were very happy." (2/10)

#realstory #Finance #womenpower

"Not because I was going to study, but because they could now share the scooty that I used to ride to school!

I am like a mother to my sisters because I do not want them to go through what I did." (3/10)

#money #education #scooty #MOTHER

"For 3 years of engineering, I somehow managed to pay my fees, many times waiting at the entrance of the exam hall for a relative to wire my fees, so I would be allowed to write the exam." (4/10)

#women #money #Perseverance

"In the final year, a marriage proposal came from a family that agreed to pay my fees - which was the only reason I agreed. That is the importance of money in my life!

Once I graduated, I got a job in a construction company in Pune." (5/10)

#education #job #women

"My in-laws made the terms of the bargain very clear. I would work and send money home to support them. But I was not happy. I was haunted by the idea of everyone and everything I had left behind in the village; especially the women and their daily struggles." (5/10)

#passion

"I kept telling myself -
if even I did not go back and try to change that, who would?

I had to make choices. I chose to leave my job and marriage behind and started to work with tribal communities on menstrual sanitation." (6/10)

#women #money #choices

"Where I currently am, I often don’t have internet access and understand only a little of the local language. But I am happy to learn and help make lives a little bit better.

I have a small salary. I do not save. I do not spend either." (7/10)

#salary #work #womenpower

"I manage with very little and support my sisters with petrol money, books etc. Money is very important, not just in my life, but in every woman’s life. I have seen my mother ask for small things, get humiliated, but still manage to save and be proud of it." (8/10)

#women #wow

"I would like to find a way to continue to do the kind of work I do, without having to worry too much about financial security.” (9/10)

#women #financialindependence #RealStuff

- SALT Story -

Another story to celebrate the inspirational journeys of women around us! Check it out! (10/10)

#women #money #choices #saltstory #Realstory