Hunar: A Women Enterprise
It is an enterprise of slum women in Jaipur with a focus on the issues of social security, employment and gender justice primarily women from Muslim minorities, Dalits and other deprived communities.
Our Mission:
HUNAR: Essentially works to up grade the skills of women so they can get an exposure to new designs, fabrics, techniques and get right wages for their work.
Our goal is to form a women’s collective to combat social inequalities and economic deprivation, so that the women develop a collective identity emerge as empowered successful entrepreneurs and citizens who have a vision for themselves, their families, and the community.
How It All Started?
How It All Started?
Process of forming Hunar
Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti Rajasthan, (BGVSRaj) has been working for the past 16 years in 10 districts in Rajasthan. The areas of intervention have been in literacy, education, health, women’s empowerment, and livelihoods. Women came out in large numbers in the Literacy campaigns as learners and volunteers, seeing this participation, BGVS created a forum ‘Samata’ to develop women leadership and that would effectively intervene in the issues relating to women’s rights and development.
However the main challenge was to get Muslim women out of their homes and start a process in which they could reflect on the conditions they were living in and form a collective to resist exploitation. Samata has intervened in the lives of these women by organizing them, forming self-help groups and conducting workshops for their skill up gradation in embroidery. Counseling and legal support have been provided.
Hunar essentially works to upgrade the skills of women so they can get an exposure to new designs, new fabrics, and new techniques and get right wages for their work. To market these products to do away with the middlemen so that all the profits go directly them.
Our Products
The products range garments for women, men and children, Kurtas, Skirts, Sari, Lehangas, Stoles and Chunnis, Moblie covers, Accessories and Home furnishing.
What you can do for us:
We need your support to expand the group and in marketing the products and giving voluntary time to the movement. We also need embroidery pattern books or all articles which can be reproduced, hence it will be a valuable resource for Hunar.
