Additional income

Kumari lives in our Chepang community with her husband and 7-year-old daughter. She is a housewife and her husband is a laborer with an irregular income. To feed her family, she grows seasonal vegetables and raises goats. She is also the team leader of the Beltar Group (Beltar goat breeding group). Kumari is honest, hardworking, and always interested in discovering new opportunities for her family and her community. That’s how she came up with the idea of a tailor shop. There are no local…

The women of the Chepangs are basically equal to the men. They would like to contribute to the family income, but there is a lack of opportunities in this region. The Tara Namaste Foundation wants to enable them to earn extra income by doing handicrafts at home. This way they do not have to leave the children alone. The women are trained and the necessary tools are provided. We started with macramé work. We have made a start. During our last visit, 18 women learnt to crochet in a week of …