Teaching Craft as a Means of Earning a Livelihood

Thirty-eight-year-old Parvati, a master trainer of a crafts collective in Arjunpur Pathak village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, is today teaching sewing and weaving to other women in her village. The extra income generated has been possible through UNDP’s partnership with the IKEA Foundation, Swaayam, which has been training rural women in economic activities such as incense, pappadum production and carpet weaving.