SCAW
helps the citizens of the countries that it visits in many ways. Deserving
children receive a bedkit so that they may have a better sleep and improve
their chances of getting a better education. As well, local industries benefit
by competing for and being awarded contracts to produce the items for the
bedkit.
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| Manjunath, Nagu, Ramiash, Manogbai and a friend at the conclusion of the Hubli distribution |
The
Belgaum-Mumbai team had the opportunity to visit two local manufacturers today.
The first was a tailor shop called Durga Dresses, owned and operated by Ramaish
and his son Gowar. It is a two-room shop at the back of a narrow alley that
employs 10 women and men. It takes them four months to complete the order for
SCAW for the half-shirts, the golf shirts, the boys’ shorts, the girls’ dresses
and petticoats, as well as the older girls’ chudadars. Ramaish also goes to
each of the 12 distributions in the Belgaum area to personally fit each child
with proper fitting clothes – a mammoth task that is very much appreciated by
the SCAW team. It means that the quality and size of the clothing for each
child is first rate.
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| M/S Benswal Knitting Works with Team |
The
team also went to M/S Benswal Knitting Works. It employs 20 people in the
two-room shop and it takes a month to produce the 5,000 sweaters for the SCAW
bedkits. Once again, the quality of the sweaters is good
and the family takes great pride in its 20-year association with SCAW.
Team Mumbai/Belgaum 2014
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