The Remake Project

1. Unemployment: The past few months have made the situation worse for people with disability, who in any case were the last in line for skilling and employment. Women with disability are the worst sufferers remaining dependent for every need.
2. Covid Times - Personal Safety has been made mandatory so stepping outside the home has become very difficult. It is possible that the pandemic will become endemic like tuberculosis, like HIV. Translated it means that precautions are here to stay. Given this scenario, work from home has been adopted by many, even large corporations.
3. Pollution: It took just 50 days in April and May 2020 for the air to become pristine and the sky blue - All over the world, and perhaps more so in India, there is the other issue of Climate change caused by pollution, over-consumption and faulty disposal policies and habits. 
4. Waste Management: It has been proven without doubt that we need to be careful about our waste disposal practices, especially since the ideal – of reducing consumption – may not be achievable soon. The alternative of reuse needs to be practically implemented.  

The Remake Project addresses all of the above:

The 4 Ps

People:                Women with disability provided with the tools and skills to be included in the dialogue of change and remake their lives in a scenario that is unprecedented - a fresh start. The community receive access to high quality and low cost upcycled goods and participate in this process of change.

Products:             Protective gear, Stationery and Bags

Planet:                 Products made from surplus material sourced from Export and other Production Houses; Reusable, Non-polluting, Bio-degradable - avoiding the dump yard!

Profit:                   Financial benefit, Positive visibility for people with disability hitherto viewed as recipients of charity, Dignity of Work and Financial inclusion.

Methodology: Work with thirty women with disability - 20 with physical challenges or hearing impairment to start micro-enterprises for self-employment; and 10 women with mental challenges (including mental illness or Intellectual disability) to participate in supported self-employment. These women will be equipped with tools and training for a period of 6 months to achieve the first-line goals:

1. Income generation
2. Addressing the deeper discourse of alternative waste management through Remake Design and Fabrication
3. Easy access for the general public to such products at affordable costs
4. Use of surplus and discards that would have filled the dump yards 

Mentoring: In sales and market development

Primary

·        Develop a platform for persons (especially women) with disability to earn

·        Showcase the potential of such women when provided with opportunities

·        Make planet friendly products available for all at affordable rates

Secondary

·        Engage local administrative authorities in the scope of the activity and adopt the model by providing more opportunities at the state level

·        Partner with larger business houses to encourage self-employment ventures

·        Involve local business to support and encourage these (and new) ventures