Supporting Hand-spinners in Kutch with 5% from Every Quilt Sale
Kantai Se Kamai
Our partners Khamir who weave our handwoven Kala cotton fabrics, have started an initiative to provide training, capacity building and tools to rural women in Kutch to begin hand-spinning, and we at Stitch by Stitch want to contribute to the initiative.
Some of the poorest women in India have been severely affected by COVID, and Khamir have stepped up with a plan to provide meaningful self-employment. They have identified 40 women in Kutch who require help in facilitating their journey to economic empowerment. Hand-spinning directly impacts the independence of women who don’t want to migrate or take up low-paid daily wage work.
By hand-spinning and hand-weaving indigenous materials like Kala Cotton, local people in Kutch can create a more sustainable economy for themselves.
In order to help, we are pledging to donate 5% from the sale of every Chindi or Raw Chindi quilt to the Kantai Se Kamai project to support this hand-spinning initiative.
If you’d prefer to donate directly, please click on this link. Here you will also be able to watch the film “Why does hand-spinning matter?”.