[Reader-list] MESH – Maximising Employment to Serve the Handicapped

[Kshmendra Kaul]

MESH – Maximising Employment to Serve the Handicapped 
 
 
Mrs. Savitri is a weaver at the Physically Handicapped Training and Rehabilitation Centre in Sangli, Maharashtra suffers from leprosy but is learning to make scarves using wool for the first time.
 
Mr. Anbazhgan is a disabled wood-cutter, part of The Helen Keller wood carving group in Kalakurchi in Tamil Nadu, who is learning about the problems he could face with the use of an unfamiliar wood for an international client.
 
Mrs. Kankadurga works at Bethany Products, Bethany Leprosy Colony in Andhra Pradesh to create bed webbing that is used in the production of strong and beautiful bags.
 
Mr. Tarak Nath Roy of Susunia, West Bengal, is a gifted stone carver but disabled by polio.
 
The lives of these four artisans and several hundreds like them h