We are excited to continue our series of biographies featuring the women who participate in Profugo’s Tailoring Training Program this month, with our third tailor, Nalini. Nalini also hails from Prashanthagiri. She and her husband met at her uncle’s wedding. They are working very hard to support their daughters, ages 5 and 9. While Nalini spends her days at the tailoring workshop, her husband works far away in the district where he was born and
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Slowly waking from sleep, the crowing of the rooster becomes more and more lucid, cock-a-doo-da-looo! I rub my eyes and put my feet on the floor. Although sleepy, I smile because today is the start of implementing the wells in Prashanthagiri. I gather my things needed for the day; a camera, my housedress (this is what the ladies wear to work), and some materials for the tailoring workshop. Off I go to the bus. As
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This Sunday our village was full of sounds. Firecrackers marked the beginning of the Hindu New Year according to the Malayam calendar in Kerala. Anxiously awaited by many of the children at our English classes, this “Vishu” Festival carries a very suiting (yet unorthodox) name for a new start. “Vishu” meaning “equal” according to the Sanskrit language or equinos, the time when the day and the night are equal in duration. So, as children were running around
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I love learning about other cultures. I find the differences in people’s everyday lives, their customs, and traditions, how they relate to one another, and the values they place on certain aspects of life to be so intriguing. Besides all that, which was an attempt to sound like a semi-intelligent human, I am absolutely fascinated by how different cultures eat. Food is like a secret window into a culture. How, when, what and why people
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This month we are continuing our biographies featuring the women who participate in Profugo’s Tailoring Training Program. Last month we told the story of Aishwarya, an extremely strong woman who has gone to great lengths to care for her family. Tavishi Next up is Tavishi, who at 27, is the youngest of the women in the tailoring workshop. She moved to Prashanthagiri just nine years ago, after marrying her husband. Tavishi has a passion for learning and
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