From 15 to 150 a day

Nalla Nagmani is proud today, as she has got her daughter married, replaced a leaking roof and also applied for an electricity connection. She had a very painful life with lots of problems in it. She was married at the age of 12 and has 4 children whom she has to feed every day. Her husband was a coolie worker and often spent all his earnings drinking and for other pleasures. He never gave her any money and the family starved very often.

Her entrepreneurial ideas helped her a lot as she decided to do a small business, all by herself. She and her children started breaking cashew nuts initially and also made ropes during non seasons. She borrowed 200 and invested that money in buying a basket and a log, to break cashew nuts. She earned 15 every day. Nagmani ha bigger plans and borrowed 400 and bought coconut husks worth 100, she and her children made ropes out of it and sold the rope for 350 each. Thus she made a profit of 150 every month and slowly expanded the same business.