Support an agribusiness run by Tamil women

Greetings, Sai Sujitha.  You were kind enough to choose our project to support our project with your corporate gift card, so I wanted to let you know how things are going.   Unfortunately, because new regulatory requirements in India have made it temporarily impossible for Global Giving disburse funds to their Indian partners.  As a result, we do not have funding to proceed with any of our Global Giving projects and have currently suspended all activity on them.  Global Giving hopes to resolve the problem sometime in the first quarter of 2020. 

In the interim, we have continued our outreach to women in the area to discuss their needs and interests.   We have talked with several women's groups interested in starting a business to produce and sell organic fertilizer, either what we call panchagavya, produce from cow manure and urine mixed with a number of other inputs, or vermicompost, made from worm castings.  Many women are interested in learning organic farming techniques, and ways to market their produce more effectively so that they will not lose so much through spoilage.  We have knowledge and experience in all these areas and looking forward to getting started.

The funds you donated are enough to hold a village workshop on organic farming techniques for interested women.  I hope that by the time I next write, I will be able to report on having done so, and have raised enough additional funds to supply those women with seeds and other inputs to get started.

Although we will not receive any new donations for a few months, it would be great if you could share our project with some of your co-workers in the hopes that a few of them might support us too, so that when we are able to receive funds, we will come out of the gate running.

With best wishes and gratitude --

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