Screen Printing Training Has Started

Vimal, Reena and the GMR volunteer Deepak from the GMR project arrived in MESH Design Studio today for their first screen printing lesson and they have already printed something!  They are learning about stencil and enamel printing before settling into the really serious business of photographic screen printing.

 

Syamala showing Reena and Vimal and Deepak how to make a stencil

Both Vimal and Reena have orthopedic disabilities and they are from low income backgrounds.  We hope very much that they will learn the skill, enjoy the work and set up their own printing unit in the resettlement community where they now live having been moved from a temporary slum when the new airport was built.  Hopefully they can earn their living from this activity by taking local orders and selling through MESH.

 

Trying it out

Watch the progress.

Sonam at work in MESH Design Studio

Sonam from Leh is also working on some new products with Ashok using tailor’s waste.  Sonam is hearing impaired, following an injury from falling off the roof of her home when she was about six years old.  She works with two other women in the Secmol office of PAGIR in Leh in the Himalayas…and this is their usual view from the workshop window!

View from SECMOL Office in Leh where Sonum usually works