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Today, Vinita is a data entry operator in backoffice process in salt lake industrial area Kolkata . Quite and confident she inspires confidence in her clients and is a role model for her three daughters who she is bringing up as a single mother. Vinita’s husband walked out on her and her daughters a few years ago. Vinita was relieved when this happened as it was better to be without a husband and without a father than to be with one who was violent. Vinita and her daughters suffered from unpredictable bouts of his rage almost on daily basis.
After he left Vinita, who had studied only up to class XI, desperately tried to look for a job…any job that would help her sustain herself and her family. However, the jobs she was able to find were erratic, without guarantee, nor leave, not much salary and long hours of work, making it tough for her to manage.
One day her friend told her about Turnstone GLobal. As Vinita says, she joined Turnstone to come and learn about data entry operator training classes under skill development program for empowering women like her. But she found a space where she learnt about so much more. In her gender classes especially, she found an opportunity to reflect on her own experiences and realised that she had different choices in life. Through counselling sessions she was able to slowly build an understanding in how she needed to handle her personal challenges.
Eventually, with her own hard work and support from Turnstone, she gained professional competence and then took up an employment as a data entry operator.
