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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Toy making empowers Koraput tribal ladies of Orissa

By Manoj Kumar Das

Tribal ladies in Koraput district of Orissa are engaged in the art of making toys from paper pulp, which helps them to earn their livelihood. A self-help group is engaged in training them in the art. In the past days it was found the tribal ladies relaxing at their homes after lunchtime. Looking forward to financial independence, they can gain some amount of living and which made them to start themselves engaging in toy making profitable business. Tribals found expressing happiness over the fact that they are now able to help their family financially. Now days they are planning to increase their productivity to increase their earnings. It is found the tribals instead of relaxing in the day time after lunch are engaging their time in toy making.

“We have created birds, trees and other things from paper pulp. An artist taught us to make toys from paper pulp and now we are making toys ourselves. We plan to invest some money so that we can purchase more paper pulp to make more dolls,” said Premika, a tribal women engaged in making toys.

The toys highlight the tribal art and culture. A lot of these toys are sold in exhibitions and fairs. It is also found the tribal hand made toys are capturing the Koraput and being a profitable business.

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