Pinky Reddy launches NGO Exhibition, Hyderabad

Huddled in dim lit rooms (huts) surrounded by poverty and pallour, these poor women do exquisite embroidery on silk saris whenever they can spare the time from their usual daily household chores along with working on the farms and fields. They seek and get work, travelling long distances of 20/30 Kilometers to visit the small N.G.O. Centre, which provides them with the materials after the designs are duly planned and printed upon. The N.G.O. tries to sell the finished products to small shops in the cities or mediators at fairly low prices.

When I visited this small N,G.O. Centre in Bengal, I realized that something needed to be done, and for that, I must visit the roots ie the actual worker's premises to find out their state and status.

Travelling long distances into the interiors of small villages, I landed at a cluster of huts and was literally shocked and amazed to discover, how these poor women worked under dire poverty and dirty surroundings producing such exquisite pieces of artistic work.

I immediately realized they needed help in whatever form possible for a better infrastructure and a better organized system to sell their products.

Hence the decision to hold such exhibitions and sales to bring their products to the discerning public eye, and at the same time provide them with better financial gains.

It's a wonder then, that under such hard circumstances these under-priviledged women are fighting a quiet war to become financially independent and thereby provide sustenance to their families by adding to their income and also give education to their children.

Our endeavour is to help them do just that. I am enclosing a picture of an NGO. Worker at her work.