Set To Earn First Business Profit, Here’s How Buli Pirbaka Uplifted Tribal Women Around Her
Among the several distinctive conversations I had with grassroots entrepreneurs visiting from across the country at the UN Women India Country Office, Buli Pirbaka’s story, too, stuck with me for more reasons than one.
Buli Pirbaka shares with SheThePeople her entrepreneurial journey, the challenges she faces as a breadwinner, her zest for technological advancement for her business, and why her purpose now lies in lifting other women up.
32-year-old Buli Pirbaka started her entrepreneurial stint with a rose business first. Not having stepped outside of her home much, she felt intimated by the dynamics of working conditions but it was her drive to fend for her children that helped her not just adapt to a different setting than she was raised in but also thrive. “Like a lot of women around me, I was also married off early without any space to realise that I could do so much more individually. Having said that, I love my family and I was living a quiet, regular life, and it was actually a lot of financial issues that drove me outside the home to earn some money. I initially did it to fend for my kids but also realised that a part of me, who always wanted to try a work routine but never could, was getting a chance now,” she recalls.