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Thinlas Chorol is a social entrepreneur and writer from Ladakh, India. She founded the Ladakhi Women's Travel Company and has written articles on tourism in Ladakh and other issues.

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Chorol was born in the small village of Takmachik in Ladakh. Both her parents were farmers and along with school she spent much of her childhood helping with animals and farming. Chorol did her primary schooling in Takmachik, and secondary schooling from Domkhar, a neighboring village.

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Dr. Jupaka Madhavi is currently working at Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India as Senior Consultant and implementing landmark schemes of the Ministry such as One Stop Centre Scheme for Women affected with violence and Universalization of Women Helpline (181) Scheme for providing emergency response services for women in distress and proposals related to Nirbhaya Fund.

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Her expertise at National Resource Centre for Women-National Mission for Empowerment of Women caters to the domain of Empowerment of women from Vulnerable and Marginalized (SC,ST, OBC and Minority) Groups and Women in Difficult Circumstances. She is also mentoring 16 Thematic Pilot Convergence Projects based on different target groups of vulnerable and marginalized women.

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Nilza Wangmo is an Indian restaurant owner and an enthusiast for the local food of the Ladakh region of northern India. Her work in 2019 was recognised with the highest award for women in India – Nari Shakti Puraskar.

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Wangmo was born in Alchi in about 1979 after her father died. Her mothers parents took her in and was brought up in a village named "Stok". The village is in the mountains. She went to a missionary school whilst her mother worked for an NGO on low wages. Money was tight and although she entered college there was insufficient funds to keep her there. They would have been homeless if her mother's father had not paid for the construction of a home for her and her mother in Alchi.

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Wangmo started a business called "Alchi Kitchen" in 2016 using a business loan. The restaurant is above their home and attracts tourists to trek and find her restaurant. They spent little money on advertising but after three years work of mouth had spread and the business was sound. She and her mother developed the menu that consists of a local pasta like product called Chutagi and the steamed dumplings. Tea based on apricot kernels and their own special blend are served and the diners sit around a wood fired oven and watch the cooks create their meal.

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Her work in 2019 was recognised with the highest award for women in India. In celebration of International Women's Day in 2020, she was amongst fifteen women who were given the Nari Shakti Puraskar award by President Shri Ram Nath Kovind.

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Ms. Sonam Angmo with M.Tech Biotechnology and Ms. Stanzin Minglak started ‘Lena’. Lena helps to create sustainable and dignified source of livelihood for women artisans of Ladakh all the while providing a window to the world of pure handmade Pashmina textiles from Ladakh.

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Ms. Sonam Angmo with M.Tech Biotechnology and Ms. Stanzin Minglak, M.Sc Environmental Sciences returned to Ladakh after completing their Masters from Delhi & Pune Universities and created the start-up in 2016 with 11 women initially. The growth from two empowered women to a block chain of 37 women of Ladakh is the empowerment journey to that of an international brand label of Lena is indeed a grand success story.

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Today Lena is providing livelihood sources which include seasonal & permanent types to about 37 women from rural Ladakh. Lena has emerged as a Ladakh based slow textile brand label that crafts Pashmina products where each stage of textile production is carried by hand from spinning to weaving to dyeing.

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In 2009 she founded the "Ladakhi Women's Travel Company" in order to bring more women into the field, and to promote ecotourism in Ladakh. In 2014, Chorol cofounded the society "Ladakhi Women's Welfare Network" and became its first President. The society was set up to work for the welfare of women, to support the victims of crimes directed towards women and help educate them on their legal rights. Her company uses mainly Homestays, a way to help women in the villages generate income for themselves.

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8 March 2018: Nari Shakti Puraskar (Women Power Award), highest civilian award for women in India.

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Famous fashion designer Stanzin Palmo is busy drawing motifs for her next Fashion Show’s winter collection of showcasing traditional Ladakhi Gonchas with Pashmina, Nambu and Yak wool.

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A graduate of NIFT, New Delhi. After graduation, she went back to her roots to draw inspiration from it. She worked as a design mentor in skill development projects training the women artisans of Ladakh. Her experience gave her more insight into the local textiles and traditional techniques.

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Zilzom is an exclusive Indian fashion label established in 2018 in Ladakh by Stanzin Palmo. Zilzom was born as an outcome of Stanzin’s appreciation for Ladakh by seeing inspiration in the culture, tradition, nature, and the local textiles like Pashmina and wool. She expresses herself through hand doodling by drawing inspiration from sea buckthorn, apricot blossom, clouds in a contemporary style of motifs, and then translated onto eco-friendly summer textiles.

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Zilzom became a part of the Indian fashion fraternity by winning and showcasing their collection “Between the Earth and Sky” at the Lakme Fashion Week, 2019, and was also the winner of the Blender’s Pride Fashion Tour (The Showcase) in 2020.

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Ango and nine other women from Skurbuchan village, more than 120 km from Leh town, have made the long journey lugging hand-knitted sweaters, socks, fresh farm produce like apricots, berries and a variety of lentils and pulses, to set up a stall at Aadi Mahotsav, the Centre’s first outreach programme barely a week after Ladakh was declared a union territory.

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For the women from Leh, it’s a journey of hope — towards greater economic mobility — as the fair offered the prospect of taking their wares to more takers from across the country. There is also the hope that one day, they will make longer treks to places like Delhi, Bhopal and Jammu, even if they have little knowledge about these places or their people yet. Most women here — even those coming from the remote regions of Ladakh — are aware of the recent development and have strong views on it.

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It took them 15 days to hand-knit enough varieties of woollens for children and pack pulses and cereals for the stall. The group arrived with children and food essentials in tow, with a plan to stay put during the entire nine days of the festival, hoping to be empanelled. At the stall, along with their handmade products, the women are also serving fresh food — buckwheat pancakes with warm garlic chutney, vegetarian momos and piping hot namkeen chai — food that is from an area closer to Kargil than to Leh.

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