Real Women, Incredible Lives: Struggling Entrepreneur to National Award Winner

Some people are born entrepreneurs. If you are born with a talent but don't have the advantages of education and financial stability, it would be easy to miss out, or be missed out. However, if you are Vanita Pise, you create your own advantages. Vanita, from Mhaswad in Maharashtra, dropped out of school in grade nine. She married into a well-to-do family, had three children and then watched her world crumble as her husband's poultry business failed. The family was broke, and in debt. Vanita took the reins and tried many avenues, like daily wage labour in other's fields, buffalo rearing and milk supplying to keep the home and hearth together. Today, Vanita's business and her income have grown exponentially.