Calcutta Rescue Handicrafts have started “Restoring the Livelihoods Project” for those people, especially women who have lost their jobs during the lockdown period.
They learn embroidery, tailoring, making garments and masks. Some students of Calcutta Rescue Handicrafts “Restoring the Livelihoods Project” have started to get offers from the boutiques. Like Sima Pal.
Seema Pal from Behala is 50 years old. She had been earning for the past 10 or more years, as a project attached teacher for class 1 to 4 students in a local primary school. Due to Corona the schools have been closed and the project that employed her shut down. Her younger brother works in a shop and is just about managing to pay for food. At 50 she has to rethink her income and has found hope in Calcutta Rescue Handicrafts’ Restoring Livelihoods Project. She has learned to make masks and embroidery.
She doesn’t own her own sewing machine but is dreaming to try and sell the masks she makes as a student here. She could become an entrepreneur taking charge of her own life.
We have made a video on her and CR Handicrafts’ success.
Watch the video below –
