Sudara

Sudara + Freeset: Turning Business Upside Down

Indian woman braiding material

Sudara is in the business of creating freedom jobs. Our partner centers in India provide wages for women that are, on average, double the fair-trade baseline for their work. The women also have access to job training and placement services that afford them the freedom to choose their own pathways. In addition to the living […]

Sudara Travels: Bye Bye Chennai

man at market in Chennai

Our team is gathering in India to spend time with our sewing center partners and the women who make PUNJAMMIES®, discuss new opportunities and ways to empower even more women, and to photograph our Spring/Summer 2016 line in Chennai and Jaipur.

Sudara Travels: Day Five in India

sun over ocean in Palavakkam Beach, India

Our team is gathering in India to spend time with our sewing center partners and the women who make PUNJAMMIES®, discuss new opportunities and ways to empower even more women, and to photograph our Spring/Summer 2016 line.

Sudara Travels: Day Three in India

View of Chennai, India

Our team is gathering in India to spend time with our partner sewing centers and the women who make PUNJAMMIES®, discuss new opportunities and ways to empower even more women, and to photograph our Spring/Summer 2016 line.

There is Hope: Chennai

Flood waters on the streets of Chennai, India

As an update to our previous Facebook posts, members of the Sudara team are now working on the ground in Chennai to facilitate relief work. Everyone in the sewing centers is safe, but the home of our director of India Operations was flooded.

Rise and Chai – with Paula Watts Photography

goa_india_young_woman with Chai

This is such a treat. Paula Watts is an NGO Photographer and longtime friend of Sudara. She just returned to the States after almost 3 years in India. Today, we’ll be sharing just a few of the images she captured travelling throughout India and have asked her a few questions about this mysterious ‘Chai Tea’ we’ve […]