Rotary project for India: Empowering rural women with the aid of sewing machines

Rotary International is a world-wide service club organization with four avenues of service. One of these is ‘International Service’.

Socio-economic barriers in rural India make economic and status advancement for many women very difficult. They may work as domestic servants in towns or earn no incomes by staying home. However, with training and the ability to obtain an item as simple as a sewing machine, they can be empowered towards their own and their families advancement.

The speakers, who have lived in India during the 1960’’s and visited several times since, recently helped organize a project to provide home-based business opportunities for rural women by means of treadle sewing machines in Andhra Pradesh, India. Bev and Henning will outline the project procedures, including funding cascade, as well as present samples of the types of clothes that will be sewn.

Speakers: Dr. Beverly Mündel-Atherstone (Chartered Psychologist) and Dr. Hans-Henning Mündel (agricultural research scientist) as Co-Directors for International Service, Rotary Club of Lethbridge East (2002 2003)

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