Emerging hope Lanka: Empowering rural women in Sri Lanka

• Main Authors: TAN, Wee Liang, CHEAH, Sin Mei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Social entrepreneurship; rural entrepreneurship; Microfinance; Non-profit organizations; Women; Empowerment; Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cases_coll_all/312; https://smu.sharepoint.com/sites/admin/CMP/cases/SMU-20-BATCH%20%5BPDF-Pic%5D/SMU-20-0020%20%5BEmerging%20Hope%5D/SMU-20-0020%20%5BEmerging%20Hope%5D.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Emerging Hope Lanka was founded by Nilushika Silva Jayaweera (“Nilu”), a domestic worker-turned-entrepreneur in 2016. She had left her hometown in Sri Lanka, orphaned and penniless, to work in Singapore some 16 years earlier. Her determination and thirst for knowledge was the driving force that led...