Diwali with Projecthrive !!!
Diwali, the ancient Indian festival of lights, signifies the victory of good over evil the arrival of light after a long period of darkness.
This Diwali, we pause to reflect on how we are taking this message to heart. We are working to bring more light into the world and to make it a better place.
At Projecthrive, our women’s center, we have just welcomed two new recruits after a long gap caused by COVID. For the first time, this new batch of trainees will be taught by senior female tailors who graduated from the project, rather than by male masters who traditionally hold technical skills.
This marks a significant step forward in our years-long effort to keep Projecthrive thriving, despite many formidable challenges.
On a personal note, this has also been a summer of internalizing some of the empowerment messages I have been putting out into the world for the past decade. It has also been the summer of learning to love myself and embracing my place in the world.
This year marks 22 years of working in fashion for me. My journey has taken me to artisan communities across India, fashion capitals across the world, and everything in between. The path has taken me to corners of the world not on any map and helped me make connections and encounter serendipities I couldn’t have possibly imagined.
I’ve met spinners, weavers, dyers, farmers, seamstresses, activists, designers, students, environmentalists, scientists, researchers, and artists and learned more than I will ever fully understand.
I am grateful to everyone who brings light into the world with their work every day and is grateful to be a bearer of the light.
I wish you all a very very Happy Diwali
With love and light
Sonica
