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Where the Brahmaputra meets the Mississippi

Richfield Middle School
Richfield, MN, MN

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Where the Brahmaputra meets the Mississippi

The funds raised through this event are aimed at targeting the plight of underprivileged women from rural Assam who often work as domestic help in cities. Many of these workers are young girls, as young as 11 and 12 years of age who are sent to the cities by their struggling families to live and work with employers for petty remittances. In the absence of enforcement of the required laws, many of these women and children face tremendous physical and mental abuse. This is a serious issue that has existed for several years, yet rampant poverty, lack of e¤orts by state and civil society has continually accentuated the problem. SPADE is working on providing specific life and job skills for the rehabilitated domestic workers and the funds from this event will help SPADE to strengthen its e¤orts and broaden its coverage. The other issue that RGVN has been working with is developing entrepreneurial and self-sufficiency skills among groups of very poor women from the traditional weaver community in Assam.

These women have excellent traditional skills sets of weaving .ne textures and artifacts, yet because
of their lack of access to credit and market, they are not able to make gainful livelihoods out of their skills. They are often tricked by middle-men who benefit tremendously by buying their products at very cheap rates and selling the same products at exorbitant amounts locally and globally. RGVN has made impressive ground work in helping these women organize into self-help groups, and any additional funds they receive will help them in creating other capacity building skills, marketing issues etc. We are very confident that the funds that these two organizations will receive through this fundraising will go a long way in providing them the help that they need to create positive changes in the lives of women they work so passionately for.