After the death of Marjiya Bibi’s husband, she was fully dependent on her son and daughter in law. She is 45 years old now. She did not had any source of income before . Somehow, her son provided her 2 meals a day. They only have 1 room in the house, and marjiya bibi left the room for her son and daughter in law to sleep in the room, while she sleeps in the verandah. She took a kantha stitch training, which was provided by DSCWS and while doing the training she started doing order works and earned about 4k per month. After the completion of the training, now her finishing and speed of the work , both has improved. She also formed a SHG group to save money. For taking a training, which was given by DIC , she went out of durgapur , for the first time and went to Kolkata and took a advance training of kantha. Now , she is looking forward to showcase her talent and work and win a prize in the handicraft competition. She is now more confident and helps her family, and all this was possible due to her hard work and the guidance provided by DSCWS.

After completing class 12, Hasnahana couldn’t continue her education. She took a kantha training which was provided by DSCWS. After completing the training, she does order work and earns about 5k per month. Recently, her marriage got fixed. She did a lot of arrangements for her marriage using her own money, and because of this , her parents are also happy. She also wants to continue her kantha work even after marriage.

Golap Sahana is the mother of two children. Her age is 25 years. During Golap’s birth, her mother died and her father went away and married some other woman. Golap grew with her grandmother’s care and guidance. Her grandmother worked in several houses and earns money and took care of Golap. When Golap grew up, her grandmother made arrangements for her marriage. After few years of Golap’s marriage, her husband died keeping Golap and her 2 children. After this incident, she along with her children came back to her grandmother again. But, only by working in several houses, it was a difficult job to sustain this family. Then, Golap decided to take a kantha training which was given by DSCWS. And after the completion of the training, she does some order works and earns near about 1500 per month and somehow runs her family.

Ulefa bibi has a partially impaired vision, still she has a urge to learn kantha stitch, that’s why she joined our kantha stitch training organized by DSCWS. Her husband works as a daily labour. But as he does not get work regularly, they have to struggle a lot to earn a living. They have 2 children , they are studying in a government school. After completing her training, she now takes order and completes her order work and earns about 1000-1500 per month. Her finishing of work is much better than others. The amount of money she is earning from these order works, she now utilizes that money to provide coaching for their children, that’s why she is very much happy now.

As Samsunihar lived in Bolpur earlier, that’s why she had some knowledge of Kantha Stitch from before. She took some orders from the agents,, and completed those work and earned money. After she got married, she came to Rangamati village, and that’s why her order work was stopped for some time. The kantha stitch training which was provided by DSCWS, included varieties of stitches which she didn’t know, as she only had the basic knowledge, that’s why she enrolled her name for the training. After completion of the training, and the improvement of her skills, she started taking orders here and completed her work. Also, the wages provided here for her work, was far better than the wages she used to get in Bolpur. That’s why she decided take orders from here and complete her order work .