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Red Heart
Society is founded to help people to help themselves. It is better for people
to have a place to work instead of a place in the queue for food. A place of
work gives sustainable and immediate help. The Asian
Tsunami which hit the coastal belt of the
fight against poverty and work for peace is to sides of the same story. Red Heart
Society wants to arm the poor people with jobs in the fight against poverty, war,
suppression and the fear for the future. To help
these people Red Heart Society has started 4 micro industries in Fishing
and Coconut Fibre based Industry were the traditional livelihood of these
villagers. Majority of these villagers who lived along the coastal belt were
extremely poor and what they earned daily was hardly sufficient to meet their
daily expenses. Tsunami made their lives more and more miserable. Most of our
members are Tsunami affected. Locally,
all these rural women earn only a very small amount of money for their
productions. Some of these rural industries are on the verge of
disappearance. Coconut
fibre based handicrafts and several other ornamental items done by rural
women using natural environmentally friendly raw material has already been
identified by Red Heart Society as suitable to be developed as sustainable
livelihood methods. Our
societies: 1. Red Heart Sewing Society (6 members) 2. Red Heart Coir Society (22
members) 3. Red Heart Straw Society (3 members) 4. Red Heart Palm skin Society (3 members) All together
we have 34 producers as members (33 women and 1 man) We will
help them to get access to the western markets. Then they will get better
paid for their products. If we are succeeding, it will lift our society
members out of their poor living conditions. The turnover from the sale will
go back to the producers and for the further development of our projects. |
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