By utilizing regional textiles, we help sustain the local economy, and reinforce the empowering process of womens education. With weaving as the primary employment to many men, women are forced into below poverty conditions when their husbands become unemployed due to textile outsourcing.

With it's ends attached to a tree, Benarsi Sari weavers set the threads and jacquard pattern

of a traditional piece.

Generations of weavers have honed their skills in this trade, where each Sari fetches a price which may support an entire family for a month.

The intricate system of a loom, which takes up the main room in a riverside home.

The main ingredient in the empowerment process: providing recognition for the creativity of each woman artisan.

Suni displays a sampler of the skills she has learned during her training at the Center.

The training program reveals a natural

aptitude for focused hand embroideries in blooming floral patterns

Heavily stitched roses exemplify the care and Love that go into each piece of hand-work.