Atula Tzudiris the founder of “Lendi’s food product”, a modest business focused on baking and pickle making, based out of Dimapur, Nagaland. Operating from home, she caters mostly to her local communities in her areas and to locals working and studying outside of their home state. She caters to custom orders as well.
Atula possess an experience of working in an NGO for around 18 years after completing her Bachelors in Divinity (B.D) from Eastern Theological College (ETC), Jorhat. Through utterly dedicated with her work, hermeagre remuneration was not enough to meet her expenses and she’s felt incompetent as a person that she can’t help anyone in need; this triggered her to wanting to start her own business.
She attended several training/classes on baking and got certified for Baking from Classic Blossoms Baking & Cake Art Dimapur, Nagaland in 2011. She has a supportive family and many well-wishers, and gradually could sustain her business well. Again in 2017, she got trained in Technical Infusion and Food Processing from IIE, Guwahati. After that she started using her skills by processing the locally available fruits and vegetables. She gives employment to 3 women currently and wants to engage with more women. Apart from her regular baking business she is able to manage her food processing business. Currently her products are wide ranges of cakes, cookies, pickles and dry fruits.
Atula is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.