Women On Wheels

Now Kolkata has a fleet of cars to ferry you around the city with women at the wheel. This is part of the Women On Wheels campaign spearheaded by Delhi-based Azad Foundation which works with young women living in slums and resettlement colonies. We love that the WoW programme provides training to help these women become self-sustaining professional drivers. Once qualified, the women drivers are offered employment opportunities in either long-term private chauffeur placements or on-call- chauffeur services. Under the programme the women trainees also acquire citizenship document and accident insurance, they open a bank account, obtain a uniform and a mobile phone too.