Kerala Women Dig 190 Wells To Save Their Villages From Drought.
These mettlesome women from the village of Kerala made it into a male bastion.
They turned well-diggers across drought-hit villages in Kerala.
Battling various challenges, these homemakers have dug over 190 wells across drought-hit village and proved they truly belong to the most literate state of the country by governing their lives on their own.
But the idea of doing work that only men have been doing for years, was interesting in itself.
But when other women proved we could also dig wells, I joined them.
“We never had any experience of digging wells.
Now we have warmed up to it and most of us get into 80-feet deep without any fear,” K Radha reportedly said.
But the master circular discontinued a few activities, and said that the workers cannot go back to work in the same coconut farm every year.
This threw up a challenge before us, that is to generate enough employment to all the workers.