New horizons for Living Raaga

Matilda from Soroptimist International of Bangalore, got in touch with us. She read the article about Living Raaga in Bangalore mirror. The moment she set her eyes on the Bangalore Mirror of Monday, 17th May, 2010, on the caption and the picture, she knew that she had to get through to me, as Living Raaga was the help - the link that she was looking for.

Soroptimist International of Bangalore have "adopted" a very remote and backward Lambani Tribal Village called Rachaiana Doddi, 15 km. from Kanakapura Town.  This village is extremely backward, with no government bus facility upto the village, no medical facilities, no proper school, with one teacher most of the time, no scope for training or employment, no proper or assured water supply, and worst of all, not a single toilet for the 270 persons in the village, residing in 62 homes, 130 of them being women and girls!!

From November 2008 till October 2009, they have had a teacher to train the women-folk in tailoring. They wanted to expanded their training and earning. Matilda was looking for someone to teach them art and craft, but could not find a resource person so far. Living Raaga will soon work with them to train the women in art and craft.