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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