Udupi: 'Namma Angadi' to visit Manipal
Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (VA)

Udupi, Apr 1: Namma Angadi, an annual exhibition cum sale of handloom and handicraft products will be held at Academy Kannada Medium School situated opposite Syndicate Bank Head Office, Manipal here from April 16 to 18.

Namma Angadi is being organized by the students of Manipal Institute of Communication (MIC) in collaboration with Namma Bhoomi for the sixth consecutive year. The three-day exhibition cum sale will be open from 10.00 am to 9 pm.

‘Namma Angadi’ serves as a marketing platform for ethnic and eco-friendly products made by the young craft persons of Namma Bhoomi , an NGO situated in Kundapur. The products on sale include cotton kurtas for men and women, shirts, kalamkari dress materials, children’s clothing, window blinds, lavancha products, terracotta products, wooden cutlery, traditional footwear, ethnic jewellery, pure wild honey, soapnut powder, kokum (punarpuli) concentrate, wooden furniture and much more. Namma Angadi believes that the rural market must be strengthened and expanded because they are much more sustainable.

About Namma Bhoomi

Namma Bhoomi is a vocational training wing concerned for the working children, a Bangalore-based non-governmental organization. It imparts vocation training such as weaving, tailoring, pottery and other art forms to underprivileged children. It is located in the Udupi district at the foothills of the Western Ghats on the bank of the river Varahi in Kundapura Taluk. The 6.25-acre campus has been designed to give working children a chance to continue their education and also relieve the immediate burden of survival. They felt that a residential programme would create an environment where caste and gender bias could be broken and a new value system nurtured by examining/ analyzing one’s society and the larger milieu in which we live. The campus has residential accommodation, educational and training facilities for over 100 young girls and boys. It is in function for more than 15 years.

About Namma Angadi

Namma Angadi is a collective marketing network for young traditional crafts persons of Karnataka who are ex-child workers, orphans and children who are trained at Namma Bhoomi’s Regional Resource Centre in Kundapura.

Namma Angadi was set up in 1992 to help village based craftsmen, who could not visualise a future for their occupations in the village markets due to lack of raw materials and demand for traditional products. This led to large number of migrants, especially children, who moved to urban areas in search of jobs and livelihood.

The Concerned for Working Children which has been working in the field of child labour for almost 27 years began to assist rural artisans and ex-child workers to improve and upgrade their skills, produce new products in an innovative way and help them to locate raw materials so as to meet the demands of the market. Namma Angadi has a much diversified experience. This includes interventions from various experts, advanced training for graduate children, improved product designs, financial management and marketing.

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