Ms. Corinne had an idea of selling stuff made by the girls at the clock tower of Jodhpur for raising some funds to be able to organize a medical camp in Setrawa village and Jodhpur. We have received an application from volunteer Ms. Veronika NG who is from the states and a doctor by profession, she liked the idea of the medical camp, local Doctors had accepted the request to voluntarily help by providing their service.

Because of the Trust being limited to resources we organized a stall in the city center of Jodhpur and Ms. Corinne and two girls from the project went for 6 days to the stall and sold items to tourists and spread the awareness of the Trust in between the locals. Some days of the week Ms. Pinky and Ms. Natasha, a guest at the guest house, went and helped by selling the crafts. It was very successful.

Excerpt of Corinne's Report

We sold a variety of items which had been made over the last few months. The stuffed elephants proved to be very popular and always attracted tourists and Indians alike to the stall. Bags also proved popular.

6 bags
2 small bags – including one with peacock feather
10 stuffed elephants
4 tablecloths – large and small
6 cushion covers – unfortunately the appliqué ones were not very popular
15 bracelets
2 bookmarks
4 small handmade tags
2 hand made paper cards
1 pink skirt (the only item of clothing that sold)
1 white Om scarf
I pink shawl
2 yellow bedside table cloths block-printed with elephants
3 letter wall-hangings
1 embroidered mobile
2 sets of coasters (generally people didn’t know what these were for)
Embroidered wall hanging of camel
3 stuffed bird keyrings
Postcards
1 doll
2 drawstring pouch bags
20 bags from Setrawa village project + 2 mobile phone pouches

The cushion covers were the main items which didn’t sell, as well as the clothes, which are individual taste. Some tourists were checking the bags for zips/poppers, others asked for glasses cases and another idea suggested was a padded rectangular travelers money bag which could be put over the shoulder. The key rings looked attractive to the stall.

Read Corinne's full report here

On the right: Ms. Natasha with Ms. Jessica, a tourist at the clock tower, stopping by and then visited the girls and the project, wished had longer time in India, would have ended up volunteering.