Toys crafted from discarded textile waste is giving a brand-new existence to a group of women in Chennai

Highlights

• It started out in 2015 whilst an NGO commenced education them in upcycling plastic waste to other useful merchandise.
• Shaswati who is additionally a guest college on Sustainability in NIFT Chennai then advanced them into precise toy designs.
• The initiative, she says to this point, has stored more than 100kgs of fabric scraps from going to landfills and re-used them into lovely designer merchandise.

Kannagi Nagar in Chennai doesn't have the first-class of reputations and the settlement that homes thousands of former slum-dwellers who lost their homes within the 2004 tsunami is called a hub of violence and crimes.

A 2021 examination had discovered that greater than 85% of the women there had been victims of home violence. The rate of different crimes is also lots better when compared to different elements of the town.

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