[1]Women working at Ratna Apparels
Bangaluru-based fashion designer Priya Menon has used her profession to change the lives of women. She has set up a factory, Ratna Apparels, through which she provides employment opportunities to women in her neighbourhood.
“The women in the neighbourhood used to go to faraway places to work in the garment industry. I thought if I could put up a small factory here, it’d be a livelihood for them and me. And in all these years, not one person has moved out, so I know they are happy here,” she says.
It was also a place to share each other’s problems, says Priya. Also, Priya would convert the surplus clothes that come out of the factory into toddler wear for spastic children.
She’d take her little daughter to spend time with these children. “I want her to know there are people suffering and maybe she will spread the message to four other kids. It would be great if every house took initiative in sponsoring one (lesser privileged) child’s education.”
Even before, Priya used to work with an NGO, Maya Organic to bring fashion to the aid of obese people.
Links:
[1] http://archive.asianage.com/women-working-ratna-apparels-575