Archives: Our Team

Alaka is the co-founder of Job Hut. AlakaPatowary has worked with the airline industry for 7 years, before becoming an entrepreneur. Job Hut is a skill development centre, which undertakes Government of India skill training programmes in Airline, Health, IT, Beauty & Wellness, Hospitality. Apart from that, she also has the infrastructure to undertake corporate skill development programmes. The USP of her institute were the placements. Given her own experience in the airline industry, the students who graduated from this institute got placements at par with major national brands. Apart from Job Hut, she has other entrepreneurial ventures in tea packaging.

Given that Covid-19 has impacted both skill development initiatives of the Government, as well as the sectors she was impacting training in (Airline, Hospitality, etc.), she now wants to move to agri-based training.
Alakais from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

For more details:

Website link : http://www.jobhut.co.in
Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/Jobhut-1913921002189144

Zakietsono (Atsi) is the founder of Farmer Square café based out of Medziphima, Nagaland. At Farmer square, ZakietsonoZamir and her team believe in ‘Less is more’. Serving freshly ground coffee with bites in an eco-friendly environment, young entrepreneurs are encouraged to engage in the culture of farming and invest in high quality agricultural products. They offer different blends of coffee and other local processed food products like pickle, sauce, mushroom, canned pineapple etc. She had initially started her enterprise in 2018, after which it was closed for a few months. She restarted her operations in November 2019.

Zakietsono is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

For more details: 

Website: http://www.farmersquare.in/
Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/farmerssquare/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Farmersquare.in/

Yangmila is the founder of Shirin. Shirin products started its venture in the year 2016 with just one basic product, a kind of prototype of Gooseberry candy. The founder ofShirin products, YangmilaZimik started her food processing business in a small unit in Ukhrul. At the initial stage, Raw gooseberry was taken from nearby villages.

From a scale of just one person, it has now expanded to 10 employees, all ranging from youth to old age, students who are on vacation and also the unemployed. Shirin products focus mainly on women empowerment. Shirin products sells its Products in wholesale and retails in Ukhrul and also have customers who come and buy directly. Shirin products use traditional methods for processing which require huge logs of firewood. Some products such as Plum jam, wild olive jam, prunes apple candy etc., are manually stirred.

Yangmila is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Product Catalogue – Shirin Food

For more details:

Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/Shirin-Products-110009634119367/

Instagram page: https://www.facebook.com/Shirin-Products-110009634119367/

Wabangnaro is an independent mother who started her baking business out of sheer interest. She has been running a home based bakery since 2017 with a strong clientele in Dimapur, Nagaland. She is also engaged in other businesses such as Oriflame and runs a homestay business. She shifted to Shillong due to personal reasons and is on her way to build her client base and re-establish her baking business in a new place and market.

She actively engages with her customers on Instagram and other social media handles.

Wabangnaro is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now..

Product Catalogue – Petite Paris

For more details:

Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/petite__paris/

Vilabei is a crochete artist and is based out of her home in Dimapur, Nagaland. She has been operating a crochete unit since Oct 2019. Although it is not a registered entity, she has been doing well in the business, serving and acquainting with satisfied customers local and national level too. She works on custom orders as well.  She has 7-8 years of work experience in the textile sector.

She has a strong focus on employment generation and would like to explore the export market too.

Vilabei is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Vikali is a baker and has initiated her brand Vi Bake House, a home-based baking business that specializes in customized cakes, cupcakes, desserts and cookies. She has been a home baker since 2014, and markets her products through social media. Currently, she is based out of Bangalore. Every year, she comes to Dimapur and gives baking classes to the locals. She is quite content with the size and scale of work she is doing. She keeps getting queries of her cakes, but has to often turn it down since she is working alone, and has to take care of her son.

Apart from the taste, her work stands out for the aesthetic perfection and crafting of real-life alike floral and pastels cakes and carvings.

Vikali is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Product Catalogue – Vi_Bakehouse

For more details:

Instagrampage: https://www.instagram.com/vi_bakehouse/?hl=en

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ViBakehouse/

An artisan entrepreneur from Nagaland, Vekuvolu Dozo brings change with weaving. She has been practicing loin loom (back-strap) weaving which was passed on from her mother. She draws inspiration from old memories and keeps her designs simple, nostalgic and rooted to tradition. Back strap Loom/ Loin loom weaving takes at least 3 days to complete a simple table runner. Vika Ethnic Production offers a wide range of home furnishing products. Thus they continue to promote the traditional way of weaving which helps impact the future generations to learn and preserve the cultural values and tradition. She is supported, trained, promoted and marketed by Antaran, transforming crafts (An initiative of Tata Trusts) and does most of her marketing online through Instagram and whatsapp.

Vekuvolu is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

For more details:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vekuvoludozo/?hl=en

Thungchangbeni runs a small studio ‘Achano photography studio’ in Dimapur, Nagaland. The Studio was started last year in 2019 where she does printing, framing, designing and does the photo shoots herself. She feels that she still has a long way to go in terms of its popularity. Unlike other popular and mainstream photo studios, Achano Photography is unique because it is the first one to be run by a woman and being a female photographer is another.

She wanted to do well in her career choice to prove that women can also do well and excel in unconventional career choices and businesses where there is less female peer support.  She has a degree in photography, and has been freelancing since 2013 and there has been no looking back since then. It was her love for photography that made her take the risk of setting up a business in a very competitive space.She plans to lease her studio space for any kind of shoot for other photographers. Any students or upcoming photographers out there who need a studio space for a project can also avail the privilege by paying a certain amount. And she also wanted to conduct workshops whenever she can in days to come.

Thungchanbeni is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

For more details:

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/achanotungoephotography

Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/achano_tungoe_photography/

Tuingam is the founder of Secret Cosmetics. Nestled in the hills of Ukhrul, Manipur, Secret cosmetics aspires to source all their skincare products and makeup products from the local producers. Tuingam started this venture out of sheer passion and her love for natural cosmetics. Although she does not have a background in business, she has followed her passion in making toxic free products. Secret cosmetics is clean, pure and stands out for quality.

They offer products like lip balm, lipstick and handwash. She recently launched handmade soaps and perilla face oil. Their products are 100 % vegan and she plans on sourcing all the raw materials from the farmers in Ukhrul.

Tuingamis from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

For more details:

Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/secretscosmetics/?hl=en

Ts Khihringwal is the Proprietor of “Dusk & Dawn” café.Ever since she was a student, she had always longed to have her own business; the word “entrepreneur” always rang her passion which led her to start her café with one motive in her and that motive was “to move on and not to never give up until she reached her goal”. She always loved the idea of being independent and to earn below no one else. In fact her passion for cooking plus dream to be an entrepreneur paved her to who she is today-the owner of the cafe “dusk and dawn”.

The café is a register cafe which provides delivery service as well as take- outs and also sells baked food and fast food.

Ts Khihringwal is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.