Jaywanti Devidas Bhoye

Jaywanti always dreamed big and her dreams were fulfilled after attending Mann Deshis Business Schools and learnt how to market, customer interaction, and packaging a product.

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Sushama Chaudhary

Sushma started from a food stall to a tiffin service and now after attending the MBA programme finally started a stall that became famous in her home town.

Business Schools

Sangeeta Pawar

Sangeeta Pawar of Sinnar village in Nashik district, is a skilled artisan who creates intricately designed traditional handwoven paithani saris.

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Rohini Garud

Rohini visiting the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, learned about various agri-workshops that the Foundation offered and now has become self sufficient to manage her business single-handedly.

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Vanita Sonawane

Mann Deshi Foundation's programmes brought a turning point in Vanita's life and increased her current business allowing her to profint 10,000 on a monthly basis.

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Sunita Khatavkar

A decade ago, when Sunita Khatavkar expressed her desire to join her family’s pottery business, after enrolling for Mann Deshi foundation session she picked up new skills for herself.

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Mallika Shikalgar

Mallika Shikalgar used to be unsure about where her next meal would come from. Learn how now she manages an iron tools sharpening shop earning Rs. 1000/day.

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Rupali Pavnikar

Six years ago, Rupali attended a business workshop by the Mann Deshi Foundation. Today, she has 10 sewing machines only due to her hard work and persistent effort.

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Vanita Salunkhe

Failure and rejection can be your best teacher. This certainly holds true for Vanita Salunkhe. Encountering rejection instilled in her the burning desire to prove herself to the world.

Chambers Of Commerce

Balutai Mane

Balutai's story is one of a woman who was inspired from other daily wage labourers to take loan from Mann Deshi & open a goat rearing farm by herself.

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Nandini Lohar

Nandini was forced to choose between repaying her loan and buying the additional raw materials. She learnt of Mann Deshi Bank and obtained a temporary loan repayment waiver allowing her to capitalize on her infrastructure.

Women's Bank

Vanita Pise

Vanita Pise has an inspiring story, one that shines with its steadfast determination and hard work. She is not only a successful serial entrepreneur today but also a role model for many women in Mhaswad.

Women's Bank

Sugrabi Ajji Mulani

With no formal education or technical training, Sugrabi worked as a daily wage labourer which gave her hardly enough income to make ends meets. She got help from the Mann Deshi Bank and expanded her grocery and poultry business.

Women's Bank

Rupali Shinde

Rupali enrolled for our Deshi MBA programme to gain enterprise development and financial literacy skills. A loan from Mann Deshi Bank enabled her to kickstart the musical instrument production.

Chambers Of Commerce

Vidya Kirve

While her husband worked in real estate, Vidya looked after their farm. She decided to enroll in the Business School to learn how to efficiently expand and manage her farm and tailoring businesses.

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Small Steps to a Brighter Future

Learn how an innovative loan product is supporting women micro entrepreneurs in rural Maharashtra grow their businesses

Women's Bank

Wheels Of Change

Discover how Financial and Digital Literacy Buses are empowering rural women in Maharashtra to unleash the power of technology for their businesses...

Digital Literacy

Laxmi Shellar

Laxmi’s story is unique with her involvement in SHGs, training, advising, and leading others. The women of Mann Deshi have become her family, and she gets up at dawn everyday to work hard on their behalf.

Women's Bank

Vanita Tangade

After the loss of her husband, she was the only support to her daughters. Mann Deshi Foundation found out about her tragic conditions and helped her out with loans to support her tea stall.

Women's Bank

Tamanna Attar

After heavy financial and personal losses in Tamanna's life, she turned to Mann Deshi Foundation where she was alloted the ‘weekly market cash credit loan’ which she used to transform her business

Women's Bank

Savita Yadav

Savita began as a field hand, before she took out a loan of 50 lakhs from the Mann Deshi Bank. With the loan, she purchased the land for her business and runs the large farm and proud of its growing success.

Women's Bank

Anjana Bhise

Anjana was introduced to Mann Deshi & she signed up for Deshi MBA programme. She finally understood what her revenues and profits actually were and quickly adopted new business practices & scaled up her operations.

Chambers Of Commerce

Seema Angad Gavli

Seema is very proud of the income she brings into her household. After implementing Mann Deshi’s training, her income increased by Rs. 30,000. Due to her hard work and perseverance, she is able to send her children to school.

Chambers Of Commerce

Prithi Bise

Prithi was living with a big family in a small space. To better her living conditions she began selling traditional Kolhapuri masalas and with help of Mann Deshi her business boomed and she was featured in Mann Deshi Mahotsav.

Chambers Of Commerce

Sanjana Salukhe

After years of working as a daily labourer, she heard of Mann Deshi Bank loans. She set out to achieve her dream to set up a sugarcane juice center. Her business was a huge success and her sugarcane stall is famous in her village.

Chambers Of Commerce

Supriya Dahigude

Supriya who lives with twelve family members on a farm in Andhori, has to take long and arduous walk as her village is very remote and far from her school. Mann Deshi helped get Supriya a new bicycle.

Bicycles for Girls

Snehal Shinde

Snehal Shinde lives with eleven other family members in a tiny home in Vele about three kilometres away from her school. Since she received a bicycle from Mann Deshi she has more time to participate in extracurricular activities.

Bicycles for Girls

Shreya Ballal

Shreya Ballal’s parents were forced to move out of their home in Satara and live on the outskirts of the city. Mann Deshi helped her with a bicycle. Shreya is relaxed when she comes home and is now working even harder!

Bicycles for Girls

Shobha Raut

Shobha approached Mann Deshi and was readily given her first loan of 15,000 rupees to run her store. Eventhough being handicapped since she was young her disability never interfered in her path to success.

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Neeta

Neeta started Deshi MBA workshop, where she got guidance to excel in business and how to manage finance. Neeta now employs 6 women for her candle & essence stick manufacturing business.

Business Schools

Suvarna

Suvarna enrolled to Mann Deshi workshops to become self-organised so she could work on farms and started sharing understanding about the management and financial literacy with her friends.

Farm To Market

Dhanashree Girigosavi

Coming from the Deshi MBA program, Dhanashree started her new saree reselling business and by taking a loan from the Mann Deshi Bank, she manages more than 10 cows.

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Nilam Jadhav

Nilam rears buffaloes on her farm with her husband, after getting training in financial literacy from Mann Deshi she has since expanded the number of animals and redoubled her efforts with customers.

Farm To Market

Sunita Mangrule

Sunita saw the Mann Deshi B-school on wheels parked in her village. Intrigued, she found out more and enrolled for the business development workshops, learned about organic farming, poultry and goat rearing and solar power.

Business Schools

Vidya Galande

Vidya was particularly passionate about Kho-kho and Kabbadi.  Immediately, she was enrolled in the Mann Deshi Champions programme, which is specially designed to nurture and train talented young athletes from the Mann region.

Mann Deshi Champions

Jayshri Gosavi

Jayshri's family was always involved with their farm. In her training with Mann Deshi she learned how she could improve her business and in terms of financial literacy, she also learned to conduct her banking activities online.

Farm To Market

Sarita Bhise

Read about Sarita Bhise's story of change on how she went to become from an ordinary girl from Dhuldev to the Captain of Maharashtra’s Under-17 team for field hockey.

Mann Deshi Champions