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Please join us for the Launch of the Jute Sutra at IKAAI.
Powered by Lucknow Farmers market.

? 8th October 2021
? Hyatt Regency, Lucknow

#juteforlife #jutesutra #ikaai #lucknowfarmersmarket #launchdate #lucknow

Festival season is round the corner and we must all be planning to get ready with the festive mood of shopping , decorating and gifting.

Action Center for Transformation ( ACT) , non-profit social development organization , under the brand ‘Paper Wings’ is back again with the Diwali festival handmade products from the paper crafters. There are several paper products made by the women clusters who creates sustainable products of art and creativity. The products range from table decor, home décor, jewellery & accessories etc.

Diwali Festival Products are Eco candles, String light with bells, Door strings, Wind chyme, Coasters, Planters, Baskets etc.These products are colorful, eco-friendly, sustainable and will suit your home this festival season.

Look at the catalogue for more details and pricing. You can reach us on 7428246011 / 9711540102 or write to us at [email protected] and [email protected]

I hope community members will show support by spreading the word and sharing the catalogue with the right platforms.

**We are accepting bulk orders too.

PAPER WINGS - ACT -DIWALI CATALOGUE 2021.pdf5.01 MB

SAHAJ KALANJALI 2020-21

Kalanjali is an annual solo exhibition organized during Navratri by Sahaj in Vadodara. This exhibition which started 20 years back has taken a shape of a movement. Our customer, friends and well wisher eagerly wait for the event.

For Sahaj, this is not just an event. This is an opportunity for us to interact with customers, get reviews, feedback, suggestions on products. We have constantly received the love and support from the community.

Kalanjali is a huge motivation for our women artisans who are in Dahod. Their handmade craft products are sold and liked by many from the urban areas. For these women artisans, preparing for Kalanjali is a matter of pride & self-respect and each product sold is a personal satisfaction for them.

Over the years we have made the products in Apperal, Life style and aceesories, Home decoration and Stationery and utilities.

You can view these products on www.sahajindia.org

Last year pandemic did not allow us to hold the annual exhibition hence we decided to utilize the time by doing capacity building of women artisans, develop new line of products and enhance the existing products.

This year we will hold Kalanjali exhibition for 2 days instead of 4 days. The details of the exhibition

Date: 17th September and 18th September

Time: 10.00 am to 8.00 pm

Address: Splatter Studio
22, Anandnagar Society Productivity Road. opp. Navjivan Hospital,
Vadodara. Gujarat. 390020

They all say...
"सवार हो जाए जुनून जब सर पर की मुझे कुछ पाना है,
रह जाएगा फिर क्या इस दुनिया में जो हाथ नहीं आना है।।"

370 new trained artisans have made JUTE FOR LIFE more bigger.

Support Jute - Support a Life

Workshops are being conducted in 12 different batches from Aug 13th till September 6th 2021 to provide training to 370 women artisans to improve their economic status.

Workshops are being conducted for skill development by Lucknow Multi Products Cluster to enhance the process towards getting a job and to encourage to live a decent livelihood for rural women from Aug 13th till September 6th 2021 for 370 women artisans in 12 different batches.

Workshops are being conducted for skill development by Lucknow Multi Products Cluster to enhance the process towards getting a job from Aug 13th till September 6th 2021 for 370 women artisans in 12 different batches.

We are happy to inform that we are a fully vaccinated enterprise with all our rural workers completing their vaccination on time and without hesitate. # vaccination #fighting COVID-19??

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words and endless memories. Preserve your precious snaps in our eco-friendly handmade photoframe and handmade paper fabric diary made by rural women artisans. Make a gift of it to loved ones or friends or hoard one for yourself.

During this tough time support our artisans by gifting the memories to your father.

The seventeen United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
All of us here at this platform is contributing to a number of SDGs. ?

This month’s SDG is number 1 – NO POVERTY ?

For all of us here to share experiences and learnings to achieve our goal. ✍

When we launched this community platform in February 2020, we never imagined that the corona pandemic would impact ALL OF US by March 2020. And that our team and experts would no longer be able to travel to our partners to work on their growth plans.
By April 2020 we had changed our model to completely online so as to continue to support our partners the best we could.
Last week we enjoyed our 265th online workshop which we did with our partner Mudita & Radhesh Pvt Ltd. #sharingknowledge

Wishing you a happy new year 2021. May everyone have good health, great resilience and determination to fulfill all your dreams.

We are very glad to share that ACT 's initiative - KAAGAZ KE PAANKH - Bringing economic empowerment of women by upcycling waste to resource - has been selected and secured a position in the 10 best social enterprise cases in the Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition 2020 under the non farm sector.

We are happy that our efforts, processes , challenges and the achievements till now has been recognized and will be recorded in the Case Study compendum which will be released on 30th January , 2021 Saturday of the Livelihood India Summit to be held in Delhi at 10 am.

Thank you to each one of you for your encouragement and belief in our idea and efforts and looking forward to your continuous support.

We are very happy to inform you all that shalom has secured a position in the best 10 cases in the Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition 2020!
our case will be included in the Case Study Compendium which will be released on the day three of the Livelihoods India Summit scheduled to be held on the January 30, 2021 between 10:00 am to 1:00 p.m. at New Delhi.

You will surely like to have a JUTE BAG rather than a oxygen cylinder ;)
Since Jute is a durable material and has a lifespan of over a thousand plastic carry bags! ?

These bags are reusable, eco-friendly and foremost, these are Handmade! ♥️

Go and get yourself one Today! ?

Also, it's Available on Amazon with many amazing deals! ?

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So our experts may not be able to travel to India, but that doesn't stop us from supporting our partners in India in their growth. Between April 1 and November 30, Women on Wings' consultants and experts moderated a total of 229 online sessions with our partners in India. All with one ultimate common goal: improving and creating livelihoods for families in rural India. #keepingtheconnection

Today we enjoyed our online workshop about online sales with the team of
Rangsutra Crafts India Ltd. and our expert Ellen Oord. We have fond memories to workshops with the same team in Bikaner and Delhi when our experts Joost Theunis and Cornelie Guise could do brainstorms in a much more fun way. Looking forward to those days to come again soon ?

Another milestone: we just had our 200th online session since April 2020. We worked with our partner AgroTIE's team on its financials. Expert Anita Joosten joined today and she shall continue to work on AgroTie's financials more in detail next week.
We are happy that we can continue our consultancy and mentoring online, but we count down the moment that travel is safe and we can meet our partners in India in person again ?.

AIACA Craft Kutumb - Shilp Udyam Samman

To enhance economic dynamism in the sector, a number of areas need to be strengthened of which one of the major bottlenecks and needs is access to finance, especially for the smaller producers and grass root entrepreneurs. The producer entrepreneurs suffer from the vicious cycle of no stock, no direct access to market, no access to finance for leveraging market opportunities, and continued wage employment with traders.
In order to neutralize the body blow of the lockdown forced by the COVID19 pandemic the Craft Kutumbs shilp-udyam samman will aim to fulfil the following objectives.
Accelerate craft businesses which have the potential to grow by providing the much needed financial assistance to the deserving craft enterprises.
Provide tangible and intangible inputs to augment the capacity for impact of a select set of entrepreneurs, craft groups or organizations selected through an established eligibility criteria and competitive selection process.
Last Date: 15th December 2020
Application Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgyG869TfZVvbBImWb-4aqcrNL64F…

Today we facilitated our 189th online consultancy / mentoring session with our partners since April 1. Despite COVID-19 we continue supporting our partners as much as we can. A big thank you to all our experts who continue to share their #time & #talent online with social enterprises in India. All with one aim; to ultimately grow the organizations and co-create extra jobs for women in rural India. Happy Wednesday ?