Livelihood Promotion of Marginalised Slum Women

The pandemic has affected the whole world and has put the human life in peril. The health workers are trying their level best for ensuring safety of lives of people. The women from Karimadom slum has also ensured their participation in safeguarding the lives of people by introducing best quality stitched masks to the market.

Since the pandemic affected the human life seriously, the demand for masks hiked in the markets but then the availability of stitched masks with good quality couldn’t meet the rise in demand for it. In light of the you tube training videos and other professional advices we trained 15 marginalised women who were interested in stitching cloths. They were trained for stitching masks without a compromise in its quality.

The women introduced the masks of two types:

1. Mask with cloth layers
2. Mask without cloth layers.

Mask with cloth layers were more efficient and could be re used after proper washing. Mask without cloth layers are one time usable and has to be disposed properly after the use.

We are happy to announce that this initiative which was started as a short term livelihood activity has been sustained till now and is being running successfully without a slight compromise in its quality. The women has introduced around 40,000 masks with cloth layers and 16000 masks without cloth layers in the market during the lockdown period when the supply of masks couldn’t meet the demand for it. The raw materials for the manufacturing of masks were made available only because of the contributions from the donors from GlobalGiving and some of the local donors.