Introduction

Tharu Community Women’s Hand is a profit-making firm that supports, promotes and encourages women entrepreneurs in Nepal, particularly in the Southern lowland Terai. The organization supports handicraft training for indigenous women; re-discovering and designing Tharu attire (traditional cotton clothes, dresses, etc) and tailoring. The organization does both production and trading of different Tharu handicrafts, garments, and jewellery.

From the profits of production and trading handicrafts, garments and jewellery, Tharu Community Women’s Hand supports different trainings to make handicrafts, tailoring and garments. The trainings help women to be an entrepreneurs and diversify their income opportunities. The organization also supports education and health for economically low profile. Currently, the organization is in support of Horizan Nepal – a French organization supported to build of school rooms for the New Sauraha Daycare Center located at Jankauli, Ratnanagar 5, Chitwan. The school support benefits kids whose family economic profile is low for access to the world-class education.

Similarly, Tharu Community Women’s Hand in collaboration with Tharu Welfare Society Chitwan in support of the Tharu Commission conducted one month of training on weaving Tharu indigenous baskets. In the training, 30 women were trained and learned the skills of weaving baskets from elephant grass available in the nearby jungle.