By Janet G Preethy | Project Leader
If you have been following our progress, you know that we have been working with a sangam of 20 women who we taught to grow tomatoes organically and then preserve them as jams and relishes. They were having great success selling their products when the second wave of COVID hit, and Tamil Nadu went into lockdown. Because their whole village was subject to quarantine due to an especially high rate of COVID infection, we have been able to have little contact with them since.
But we seem to have turned the corner on the pandemic's spread, and restrictions are slowly being eased. When we finally meet with these women next week, we expect to be able to deliver several mobile food carts to them, which should make it easier and safer for them to sell their wares. We will also provide them with cash grants that they will be able to use to support their work however they see fit.
Root for us that when we meet with them again in July, it will be safe enough to train them to use the cell phones that we will buy for them and program with apps that we will download to help them with marketing and accounting.
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