Meet our February 2023 featured tailoring student for Stories of Empowerment, Reena. Reena is from the Behera Pali village in Balangir. She lives with her young daughter, Siddhi, and her husband, who works at a grocery store. When Reena heard that she could learn how to stitch for free at the One Life Movement tailoring classes, she went to ask her husband’s opinion. He was completely onboard and excited for her to start the classes. “No knowledge is wasted,” he said. “We don’t know when certain skills will be useful to us.” Needless to say, she enrolled in class immediately!

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