Our stall at the Indus Festival of Charities, 2011

This is the third year we've participated at this event, and this time we finally had lantana products for sale in addition to the bags.

All 51 hangers got sold, and some hairsticks as well. The craftsman Shatrughan (of Sawra, Pench) made far too many hairsticks, though I'd warned him not to. Mumbai women don't necessarily have long hair or wear this kind of hair ornament. Anyway, we have over 50 hairsticks still with us, and eventually we're hoping to find buyers for most of them.

Here's an earlier post about these products. You can see photos of the hangers and hairsticks, very pretty and well-crafted by Shatrughan, who is an excellent carpenter.

The shopping bags got a good response too. Several people remembered our bags from last year. This time we had bags made by four girls from Moharli (Tadoba) in addition to those made by the people from Pench. There were a few patchwork bags too, here's a picture:



The fabric pieces were donated to us by the NGO Womenweave.
I had actually gone to them to buy fabric, but they suggested we could use the cut pieces for patchwork instead.

The slogan is our attempt to dumb down the message of why conservation is critical. Many thanks to chlorophyll brand consultancy for the design and printing.

We had two very interesting visitors at the stall, both awardees at this year's Sanctuary Awards: Daulat Singh Shaktawat of Ranthambhor, and Rajendra Kerkar of Goa. They were staying at the YMCA, where the Indus festival was being held.

Here's last year's stall at Indus. And the stall of 2009.

Thanks Parth Badheka for volunteering at the stall all day, and Kirti Chavan too.