EWeaves' Her life hangs by the thread she weaves

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E-Weaves.Her life hangs by the thread she weaves

• Handloom weavers make cloth on traditional looms
  (cloth making wooden equipment)
• Third largest segment among the poorest
• 6.5 million handloom weavers
• Customer base across the world
• Exports increasing by 30 per annum

The pain Lack of access to technology, market,
finance and better production alternatives
The key Fight against unfair, trader
controlled textile value-chain through ICT
Switha Grandhi
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looms that click

• ICT services to 1000 weavers through
• Market Intelligence Systems
• Computer Aided Designing
• E-Commerce solutions
• ERP Solutions
• Customized technology in vernacular
• language
• Additional functions
• E-Education
• E-Governance
• Kiosks in every collective of 30 weavers with
  web-based and off-line services
• The Benefit Structural change in market through
  access to technology, market and ownership of the
  community

Switha Grandhi
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she weaves a unique design

• Innovation
• Pioneering initiative in weaving sub-sector
• Use of technology for purposes beyond e-commerce
• Unique institutional structure
• Entrepreneurial
• Professionals with technical and grassroots
  experience
• Social Impact
• Changing the trading structure
• Skill to youth
• Sustainability
• Doing business with business model with social
  impact
• Institutional structure Multi-stakeholder
  private company
• Brick mortar services
• Replicability
• Customized and easy to use technology

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along with us through E-weaves

• Scalability
• Basket of services
• High impact technology
• Dedication
• 3 years of ground work completed
• Committed field staff
• Commitment to the cause and not just the idea
• Ethical fiber Leadership
• Creating windows in the walls
• Identifying and grooming the right people
• Reflected in an open, transparent, flat
  organization
• Building the trust of the weavers
• Working on an equitable ethical market for the
  artisans

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.to change the looms of despair

• Private company will invest in the collectives
• Services to the collectives by the company on fee
  basis
• Offering e-education and e-governance services
  for fee

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.for a better tomorrow

• A Weaver Speaks