Ms Salam Sangita
- Success Stories from North-East for Women Empowerment -

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NEDFi is also facilitating marketing support to the artisans of NER through exhibition participation and its various showrooms at Guwahati & Khetri in Assam, Imphal in Manipur, Aizwal in Mizoram, Namchi in Sikkim and Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.

The showrooms at Guwahati, Khetri and Aizwal are under NEDFi's direct CSR support and the rest of the showrooms are setup in collaboration with various established NGOs/Societies of the locality.

8 . Name: Ms Salam Sangita

Ms Salam Sangita is a 40 year old woman residing at Thangmeiband Lourung Purel Leikai, Manipur. She was earlier a national level handball player before she got married.

Weaving clothes and doing a business was a far cry for her but her fate led to something else which was beyond her imagination and capacity.

When she was newly married, her husband was a private school teacher and running the family with his meager income.

At that juncture, Sangita was unable to just sit and wait for daily needs from her husband.

After giving a thought she pawned her jewellery items and started her clothes business.

She came to know about Chanura Microfin Manipur, a NEDFi assisted MFI based at Imphal & was willing to join one of the women groups to avail loan from the MFI.

Unfortunately, the other members were reluctant to let her join as they doubted on her ability of repayment.

Later, one of the members left the group and she got the chance to join.

Her husband advised to use the money wisely in right way to run her business.

They realized that instead of borrowing money from the money lenders, taking loan from Chanura was much more beneficial to them.

Now her business is running well and her products are in demand throughout the year.

In the group, which rejected her first she has become an example as a very good member who pays loan on-time.

She not only finds progress in business but also in household management too. She is able to create assets, send her children to good school, etc.

She said, "I am indebted to Chanura, as the progress I am making is all because of Chanura, I am very happy now and thankful to Chanura for enabling me to reach this stage".