About Gramshree
Initially the trust focused on advocating women’s rights and providing them with a voice in society. Soon, Gramshree targeted about 150 women in Charanagar, a community that earns their living from producing liquor and stealing. With the aim of guiding these women into a more respectable source of employment, the trust trained them with skills such as leatherwork, bag making and running a beauty parlor. Gramshree incorporated awareness camps on different issues in its efforts. About 50 women switched their source of income generation and strengthened their children’s futures through educational aid.
Although Gramshree expanded its activities to include awareness camps and skill training workshops in stitching and other handicrafts for slum-dwelling women throughout Ahmedabad, the women were unable to find jobs where they could apply these skills. It was at this point that Gramshree changed its mission and scope, and in 2002, Gramshree established a handicraft training program and a production center. Today Gramshree works with 500 women in Gujarat, providing them with skill training, employment opportunities, and a chance to live with dignity, financial security and self-reliance. In 2005 Gramshree opened a retail outlet to establish a larger platform from which to market goods produced by women and artisans.
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