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Mamta Joshi – A Representative of Resilience

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Resilience. The ability to stand up quickly after a fall. Armchair experts will have many theories and offer many perspectives about how to be resilient in stressful situations, but how many of them could do what Mamta has actually done in real life. When Mamta could not attend a pre-scheduled B2R interview due to the sudden death of her father, the very next day after his cremation, she turned up at the centre and requested for an  interview to be conducted for her. Needless to say, she cleared interview with flying colours and got inducted into B2R. Her response to what she did comes from her realization of the basic realities of life. ”My father was the only earning member in our family. After he was no more, I had to fill in his place. And for that I needed a job.” For Mamta there was no choice except for moving on with life after losing one of the most crucial persons in her life. “No matter how much I cry or weep, father will not return. But my mother is there. I
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Deepa Mer- A fighter all through

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“That is the B2R office.” The cab driver pauses and points at a yellow building cocooned amidst lush green mountains. His tone is tinged with visible pride, for his sister, who once seemed to have no future except getting married is now working there- working in a senior position with an impact sourcing   company located in a remote village in Kumaon- something unthinkable till B2R came and set up shop. Down in the deep valley of Talla Ramgarh, popularly known as the fruit basket of Kumaon, the B2R office signifies many things to many people. To the average villager it is the sign of unprecedented progress- “things which earlier used to happen only in big cities are also happening here” one of them tells me . To many of the village girls -who even after receiving satisfactory education were restricted by families from doing a job and instead constrained to enter marriage and   settle   down to a life of mundane domesticity- it is like a window to a world of opportunities. But to
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