INTRODUCTION
Dharohar Foundation: Empowering Villages and Reviving Dying Crafts
At Dharohar Foundation, we are driven by a mission to address two critical issues that are not only impacting rural communities but also endangering our cultural heritage: migration and the decline of traditional handicrafts.
In rural India, farming supports families for only half the year, forcing villagers to migrate to cities for labor work, leading to overburdened urban areas and disrupted rural communities. This migration disrupts families, harms children’s education, and erodes village life. At Dharohar Foundation, we empower villagers, especially women, by offering training in traditional crafts like weaving and embroidery, enabling them to earn income from home year-round. This not only provides economic stability but also preserves our cultural heritage, helping to reduce migration and keep villages thriving.
Many traditional handicrafts are on the brink of extinction as younger generations decline to take up these family-based crafts. At Dharohar Foundation, we provide a platform for artisans to showcase and sell their work, ensuring they receive recognition and fair income. We actively promote these crafts to clients seeking unique, authentic products, helping create a market for them. Our goal is to reignite interest in these crafts, preserving their legacy and ensuring their importance for future generations.
To preserve our villages and cultural identity, it’s crucial to sustain these crafts. Our work ensures traditions endure, allowing future generations to continue them. By supporting Dharohar Foundation, you help preserve rural India’s essence and keep our culture alive, one craft at a time.
Join us in our mission to empower, preserve, and promote. Together, we can make a sustainable impact for our villages and our crafts.
DHAROHAR FOUNFDATION – AN OVERVIEW
Dharohar Foundation, is a charitable Trust founded in the year 2016 by Mr. Ranvir Sushila Sisodia , who is a passionate lover of Indian Art and Craft, with more than two and half decades of experience of working with the craft community in Gujarat., Dharohar is mainly working in the Eastern part of Gujarat, sharing the head office in Vadodara, Addressing the issue of migration of Bheel and Rathwa community along with city slums, Dharohar took initiative to stop this migration and promote their craft skill to provide them sustainable livelihood through art and craft based activates and market with Fair Trade banner. Dharohar also supports unskilled and illiterate women residing in slum area to get them employment opportunity.
Legal status:
- Registered under Bombay public trust act 1950.
- Registration under Income Tax act 1961 under section 12(A)
- Registration under Income Tax act 1961 section 80-G
Our Trustees:
- Mr. Ranvir Sisodia, Chairperson and Managing Trustee
- Mr. Brijesh Solanki, Vice president
- Mrs. Laxmi Sisodia, CEO, secretory
- Mrs. Anu Chauhan, Treasurer
Our Auditors and mentors:
- Mr. Imran Somera: Statutory Auditor (Chartered Accountant, Vadodara)
- Mr. Nadim Khan Pathan: Internal Auditor
- Mr. Amit Pawar: Mentor (Chartered Account, Akola)
- Mr. Christian Ananth: Legal advisor
- Mr. Vaibhav Parikh: Mentor for Development activities for sustainable livelihood.
- Ms. Madiha Binte M. Ali: Accountant
Our office team:
- Regional coordinator Ms. Shikha Dashora
- Field coordinator Mr. Jaimin Brahmbhatt
- Marketing consultant Mr. Kunal Varma
- Production manager Ms. Palak Panchal
- Quality check head Ms. Harshita Gupta
- Consultant Designer Ms. Salika Dhanani
- Consultant Designer Ms. Shagun Miyan
- Consultant designer Ms. Ritu Makwana
- Consultant designer Ms. Urvi Bhatti
- Trainer and Group leader Ms. Harshika ben Mistry
- Trainer and Group leader Ms. Kokila ben Patel
- Trainer and group leader Ms. Saritaben Movasi
- Trainer and Group leader Ms. Rekhaben Rathva
- Trainer and Group leader Ms. Paravinaben Panchal
- Trainer and Group leader Ms. Alkaben Patel
Members with:
- Fair Trade Forum – India, Delhi
- International resources of fairer Trade, Mumbai
- INDEX-C
- Development Commissioner Handicraft. Ministry of Textile, Delhi
- Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation Of India
Valuable Partners:
- BOB
- ONGC
- Collabara
- Gramshree
- Navrachna Univarsity
- MS University (Clothing and textile Dept., Fine Arts, MRID)
- ITI, Gorva
- NIFT, Jodhpur
- NIFT, Gandhinagar
Available Infrastructure:
- Training Cum Production center at Chikoowadi, Alkapuri.
- We have collaboration with Government training institute, in the center of the city, with capacity of 50 artisans, at central bus terminals.
