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  • Karigarshala

KARIGARSHALA, THE ARTISAN SCHOOL

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Hunnarshala’s concern has been witnessing the huge surge of building activity in the country that is almost entirely using energy intensive industrialized materials like cement and steel and on the other hand seeing the rapid decline of artisanship and use of sustainable materials like stone, earth, thatch, bamboo, etc.

One of our permanent projects is an education initiative as well as an entrepreneurship incubation cell. We run a Karigarshala or artisan school where we train dropouts from the formal education system aged between 16 to 18 in carpentry and masonry. At the end of their yearlong training, we help them find work as artisans. In the absence of such training, they would be relegated to being unskilled migrant labor. 


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