Deepali Kadu’s income increased from Rs.5,000 to Rs. 12,000 as a result of training from YESummit and seedfund given. As her husband passed away, Deepali had to face a new reality of bearing the burden of expenses of the house with her two daughters. A time that left her completely confused and stressed as she said she never knew how to work for money as she had been conditioned since a child that ‘working is a man’s job.’ She says the first time she left her house alone was for the YESummit. She gathered the courage to start a business of making premix batter of dosa, thepla etc but earned only Rs. 5,000 that couldn’t pay her daughters school fees or daily expenses.

Poverty, constant embarrassment of begging for money from her brother and lack of self worth made her spiral down into a major depression. “It was complete darkness, I had no energy to even move out of my bed and suffered from stress triggered unbearable migraines.” she said. She says the YESummit online bootcamp gave her the courage to participate in the offline pitching event where she learnt everything from packaging, how to save, invest, market on social media and experiment with by making new products with food technology like shelf life. Implementing all this led her to increase her income to Rs. 12,000 a month "My daughters see that I am being less dependant on my brother which teaches them first hand the importance of being independant. I want to educate my daughters as incase a crisis strikes like for me, they will not get so badly impacted. They should be educated also to not be conditioned by the patriarchy to sit at home and feel their worth is only limited to house work like i felt." she said