Above: Bipasha Majumder and Parth Badheka setting up our stall at the Indus festival (Mumbai), 5 December 2010.
This was the first time we put the Sawra group's re-usable shopping bags on display in public. Sales were good, with customers stopping at the table through the day. Several people have also ordered bags (waterproof and polycotton), indicating that we should ask the self-help group to make an equal number of each.
People who want to help this initiative can try and arrange more such outlets for us. Perhaps visits to corporate offices in their lunch breaks? Another way to help is to take a few bags from us and sell them to your friends and acquaintances. Each bag has a label inside the pouch, explaining that it was made by the Sawra self-help group as part of our effort to reduce forest-dependent livelihoods.
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