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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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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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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I just returned from a 10 day trip to India. The agenda for my trip was ambitious, which included forming a partnership with a new fabric vendor, checking on various projects in Wayanad, filming for an upcoming video, checking on the digging of the wells that are being implemented, seeing how renovations are coming along on the Profugo House, and the interviewing of the shortlisted candidates for the program manager position that we are looking
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This post marks the start of a series of biographies featuring the women participating in Profugo’s Tailoring Training Program. Our initiative aims to allow these women to develop skills in tailoring, spoken English, and woman empowerment and business. Each month we will feature one woman, briefly explaining her background and how working with Profugo has helped improve her standard of living. As you can imagine, the life of a woman in India is much different
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