Turning art into livelihood.
Hello,
I am Maani Devi.
So it all started when one of my friend Dariya Devi came to me one day and she said that I am little trouble maintaining my livelihood in this lockdown. She comes to our home for cleaning purposes and she also do it in our neighborhood.
I gave her the money that I could afford but I was thinking that If I somehow find a way to generate employment for Dariya and more ladies like her, they will be independent and it will be a permanent solution.
With this in mind when I asked all the ladies if they can do regional handicraft work. They said they all learned it in their family.
I on the other hand was also like them who learned to design handicraft from my mother.
From here it started. With a minimum investment I started the small business of our regional handicraft work like Kantha, Banjara and Kachi. We started delivering it in our local area.
One day my son (she is talking about me) told me about this platform Etsy. I said okay. We will make it. I don't know how to use computer so you do all computer work and all.
Since than it is going on. We are happy to work independently.
We are growing slow but we are happy. :)