[Jewelry making - Article 00377] - Re: [Orchid] NightLight project

[Sarah Rhodes]

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Hi Joanna,

    Only catching up with my email now and have just read your posting
    about setting up a grassroots jewellery making project in India for
    lower caste street sweepers. I currently live in Botswana and work
    with NGO's training CBOs (community based organisations) and
    disadvantaged youth, PLWHA and women in craft skills to economically
    empower them. You are right that the key to the work is to make it
    sustainable and this is very difficult. I have seen many viable craft
    based projects here be raised up by skilled ex-patriates only to fail
    when they leave - this is completely demoralising for the people and,
    I believe, has a negative effect, rather than the intended positive
    one. 

    I would recommend that you contact established NGO's already working
    with lower caste street sweepers as they will be able to help you
    with the pros and cons of setting up your project. Hopefully they
    will be able to work with you to ensure sustainability by maybe
    providing an Indian counterpart or using similar established
    mechanisims. They will definitely be able to help you with sourcing
    appropriate donor funding and putting you in contact with other civil
    society orgainsiations to provide support for your work. There are
    many such NGO's in India and I'm sure they would be happy for you to
    help them. 

    I hope this helps. Please feel free to contact me off list if you
    have any other questions about the work I do and let us know how it
    all goes - good luck! 

Regards,
Sarah
Botswana
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