300 kilo's of fabric - and soon ready for sale!

The Cloth Bag Project recently received a massive donation from a local clothes shop, and we are told that more donation like this will come. This is not the first donation they have gotten from locals, and the project now has the materials needed for the coming months (but will accept more donations of course). If the project keeps receiving local donations regularly, the Cloth Bag Project will not depend on foreign donations and it can be a sustainable, local project, which would be amazing...

Donated clothes in good condition are of course given to families who are in need, but a lot of the donated fabric is used as materials for shopping bags. There are seven women in the project now, and they have made many, many bags! The women are careful not to waste fabric, and to come up with new designs that fit the piece of clothing they are using. The sale of these bags which will start after Diwali next week, so hopefully the women will receive their first income very soon.

You can read more about this project on Friends in Khajuraho Association's blog and website.