IND/00/073 - Yanadi Women Basket-making Project

Objective: To assist twenty bonded women labourers, the poorest caste (untouchables), to purchase basket-making supplies to assist them to be freed from bonded labour and to attain self-sufficiency for themselves and their families

Background: The above noted organization identified the target group during a survey conducted in the villages. The organization explains they found 20 very poor women, "treated as untouchables by the high caste people" who are "working as bonded labourers under the

Use of Funds: The funds will be used for the purchase of raw materials (bamboos, colours, threads, etc) and equipment (wood cutters, small, medium and large) and other implements used in basket-making during the first year. The women are already skilled in making bas

Beneficiaries: 20