SPEED Trust

Our gorgeous handwoven baskets made from recycled polyethylene are made by women trained and supported by the SPEED Trust in Chennai, India.

SPEED Trust - the Slum People Education and Economic Development Trust, started in 2000, concentrates its efforts on one of the biggest slum areas in Chennai: Ghandi Nagar - Sathyavai Muthu Nagar.

The aim of SPEED Trust is the design, production and promotion of handcrafts made by economically and socially deprived women from slum areas - particularly widows and deserted mothers, physically challenged and HIV affected people.

Activities include:

• the  polyethylene wire baskets producers' group, especially dedicated to physically challenged women;
• the tailoring unit focusing on recycled products

This NGO runs three major programs:

• Education provides
• an educational facilities for slum children
• a creche
• library
• computer lab
• loans facilitation for college students
• tuition centre
  
  
• Family follow up focuses on bringing families out of the deepest poverty,especially isolated mothers, widowed or deserted women.
  
  
• Training and educational support
• Vocational training for women such as rickshaw driving
• handicrafts
• screen printing
• beautician training
• Micro credit loans