'Freeset' Tagged Posts

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An evening with Freeset

Join us on Friday 6th October for an evening with Freeset – one of our partners. Freeset is a fair trade business .  It offers employment to women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade. We make jute bags and organic cotton t-shirts, but our business is freedom!  We would like to see the 10,000 sex workers in our neighborhood empowered with the choice of leaving a profession they never chose in the first place. What is Freeset Freeset exists to provide…

Fight is not a bad word – Freeset Fabrics

Freeset Fabrics Last year we were able to spent a day in this community with Freeset Fabrics.  It was a big day, listening to their stories and just watching as the women worked the looms.  We had been able to invest a little in the initial development of this project. To go and see the impact it was making was very moving. This is the story of one of the women at Freeset Fabrics.  Settle in, get a coffee and…

Freeset Fabrics – Weaving Freedom

Last year we had the absolute privilege to go to Freeset Fabrics.  It is in an old cinema building in a distant village in West Bengal.  The streets are dusty and crowded. Upstairs above the main intersection in town is the old cinema building now filled with weaving looms.  Here some rural women in this community are finding freedom.  We had invested in a project to enable some young women to gain the skills to take roles in a new…

Priyasha’s story – freedom in Kolkata

Freeset and Freedom.  Take a moment to listen to Priyasha’s story, one of the many women we sat with in Kolkata. Freeset is a fair trade business offering employment to women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade. They make quality jute bags and organic cotton t-shirts, but their real business is freedom!  They would like to see the 10,000 sex workers in their neighborhood empowered with the choice of leaving a profession they never chose in the first place. We partner with them in this…