A single box of honey was all it took to transform Anita Kushwaha, a teenager from a nondescript village in Bihar, into a successful entrepreneur. Anita countered gender bias to become a role model for millions of girls in India.
Four years ago, 17-year-old Anita boldly fought and convinced her parents not to marry her off. She had set her sights on something that no woman in her predominantly Dalit village of Pattiayasam had ever dreamed of doing — taking up the male profession of making honey.
Starting with two boxes, today Anita manages 100 beehives with 500 bees.
She is the youngest of 15 girls who have been selected for a Unicef multimedia campaign that create icons of girls from underprivileged backgrounds who have changed their lives by going to school.
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