Hello everyone. SEEMA (Social Endeavour to Elevate Mahila (women) Awareness), a wonderful charity that helps protect vulnerable women and children in India, has a heartbreaking story to share with you.
Rani..........her beautiful names translates to Queen......but she is sadly nowhere even near that. Her life is steeped in poverty and pain, tears and heartache! We have known beautiful Rani for a more than four years now. But she became close to us since her husband was discovered with Oral Cancer due to marijuana addiction. We did as much as we could financially but he succumbed to the terrible disease leaving Rani as a widow in her early thirties and five children, the youngest being 2 years old! Left with literally no roof over her head, no finances, no skills, no relatives who could help she became a part of our SEEMA family. We have been educating her children since a year now and helped build a small home for her, but everything came to a standstill with the pandemic. We even had to close down the SEEMA workshop. Her only means of income was the wages she got from SEEMA. But with no income Rani was left with the dilemma of feeding her children or see them starve. Seeing her plight she was an easy target for the wolves in the village waiting to exploit women like her. So soon we had to come to her rescue as an ugly situation of a man trying to rape her for a paltry sum of money and even the police was bribed and wouldnt help her. We decided that even if there were no sales for our bags we would employ Rani so that she could feed her children and not be preyed upon by the vultures in her village who looked at her as an easy target. We are struggling to pay her wages and we are looking for any help or contributions towards saving women like her in these difficult days.
-Jenny Ramble from SEEMA
Please, if you can, donate or purchase a beautiful bag to support women like Rani. Links to donate and shop are below.
*To donate, scroll down to the bottom of the SEEMA USA home page.