Women Learning from Women

At the Nongtluh Women Weaving co-operative in Umden village Diwon, Khasi Hills there were skilled weavers who performed their craft. Documentation of this film was shown to St. Mary's women's college. Some of the audience voiced that they were not aware that this collective existed. Beverley Kharsyntiew, a local entrepreneur in Shillong arranged this presentation at St. Mary's college and spoke up candidly about the possibilities of educated women with resources to get involved in local initiatives such as the Nongtluh Women Weaving co-operative Funding raised will go to support the co-operative, providing more women with the potential to be trained and find work so that they can lift themselves out of poverty