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Saturday Special With a New Dream

Each Saturday we hold an event called Saturday Special that gives us and our PM sisters an opportunity to relax and socialize for a few hours. Saturday Special is usually a blast, but last Saturday was made even better by the appearance of our volunteer architect Harshil who joined us to discuss plans for the new school that is going to be built there. Before starting Saturday Special we went... Continue Reading

YAY!! Our Planters Now Have Online Presence

Dear friends, As you know that we have been working with Paryavaran Mitras (Rag-picking women) with an aim to holistically improve their life. As a part of this concept, those women who are interested in art & craft are trained to create products out of the wastes. For now they have been successfully producing amazing planters, bird-feeders, pen stands etc. These planters not only takes... Continue Reading

Spreading Awareness in School

The past couple of weeks our focus has been on presenting to various schools around the city about the Paryavaran Mitra project. We start by showing the students a short movie (featuring members of our team and students from the Manav Gulzar center) that brings awareness to the rag-picking women in a way that is relatable to children. Then we explain more about the cause, what we’re doing, and... Continue Reading

3rd Profit Sharing Event of Paryavaran Mitra

This week we held a wonderful profit-sharing event with our Paryavaran Mitra sisters. We recapped the last quarter by showing photos and a couple of videos from fun events that the sisters have participated in over the last few months.We also screened a film promoting our project, made free of charge by a famous Gujarati movie producer. Many of the women were featured in the film and it was so... Continue Reading

Week full of Action and Fun

As we are blessed with three volunteers working with absolute compassion and interest towards the cause of bringing smile on the face of Paryavaran Mitras (PMs) (rag-picking women), it was a beautiful week with loads of actions, fun activities, discussions and planning. At one end Chandler and Shristhi are training the art women for better and newer products such as rings, pend stands etc. out... Continue Reading