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ANKUR KALA
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|  | Ankur Kala was started in 1982 by Annie Joseph, a social worker who wanted to help poor and destitute women become economically self-reliant and stand up for their rights with dignity. |
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Ankur Kala was started in 1982 by Annie Joseph, a social worker who wanted to help poor and destitute women become economically self-reliant and stand up for their rights with dignity. This cooperative's name means "a seedling of art." The center provides self-employment to these women by helping them produce and sell tailored articles, batik handicrafts and food products. One hundred and fifty women are involved in the training and production unit. Both the tailoring and catering units are geared to the local market, while the batik unit, which employs 60 women, sells products in the local market as well as abroad. Basic education like reading, writing and simple accounting as well as values education, spiritual input and business skills are taught so that after being trained the women can successfully run their own small-scale businesses. Ankur Kala also makes the women aware of the social problems women face, in the form of a theater where the women perform. It is Annie's dream that each of the women will live the values of Ankur Kala and sow fresh seeds of hope, integrity and inspiration among others.
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MY DESIGNS
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