IMPACT Community India
To help those who cannot help themselves become catalysts of community transformation
To help those who cannot help themselves
- Learn & Earn
1. Custom Bag-Making
2. Bead Jewelry-Making
3. Marketing and Business Management
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We started training women in the art of patchwork quilting in 2010 as a secondary income generating program. In 2014 this evolved into a customized fabric bag-making training, separate from the IMPACT Community Trust. Now IMPACT Bags is slowly growing into a small scale enterprise with four very dedicated women sewists, a master cutter, and two support staff.
This is the first of several alternate income-generating training in skills being envisaged at the IMPACT Center for rural semi-literate Dalit and marginalized women such as widows, abandoned wives, women with HIV/AIDS who want to gain financial independence in order to educate their children, especially their daughters. It's all about "learn and earn."
Regina finds the materials and designs these bags and the ladies convert the designs into beautiful bags. The women are given the liberty to decide on the color combinations once they are confident about their work and choice. What you see is what they have produced.
Girls learning the art of making quilted bags
Order for yourself or to give as gifts
Bead & Crystal Jewelry
In 2018 an 83-year-old friend in California provided the inspiration to learn and begin a bead and crystal jewelry-making training and business. Women love creating beautiful things but for these agriculture farm workers, it is a giant leap therefore, fearfull. Once they overcome their initial fear of working with small beads they love the work and enjoy other people's admiration of their work.
"Allure" draws poor, exploited, semiliterate Dalit women from their ordinary and harsh everyday life into a world of color and creativity.
The freedom to work-from-home and to have a secondary source of income empowers them, especially the widows and mothers with infants.
