Building Bridges India

Building Bridges India Building Bridges India is a New Delhi based, non-profit. It works to help poor women- especially widows find ways to sustain themselves and their families.

For over thirty years now, parts of Punjab have been plagued by the
suicides of small farmers. A fatal combination of factors, including successive seasons of bad weather, the soaring cost of seeds and fertilizer, a falling water table and the usurious rates imposed by moneylenders, have combined to make it impossible for them to sustain themselves on the land as their fathers did. Seeing no way o

ut, thousands have taken their own lives. In some districts there has been at least one suicide a day for years. Their deaths are tragedy enough. But for the widows they leave behind,
life also becomes a desperate struggle simply to survive. Untrained and
unorganized, often illiterate and malnourished, burdened with their
husbands’ debts and without any way of earning an income, they are
responsible for housing and feeding themselves, their children and
often their elderly relatives, as well. Building Bridges India works to meet the needs of this lost generation
of women, first in a single pilot project in an especially hard-hit district,
Sangrur, and then, with help from friends around the world, in other
districts, too. We have begun gathering the widows of Sangrur– isolated
and afraid– into supportive, self-help groups that will allow them to
address their problems together, as a community. Our project team. led by Field Director Gazala Khan, is already putting in place a variety of educational and vocational training programs aimed at helping widows find their way out of the misery in which they are mired. These range from instruction in how to open a bank account to the best way to maintain a kitchen garden, basic reading and writing skills to the revival of traditional Punjabi arts such as weaving and phulkari embroidery. By listening to the women’s needs, we seek to help them help themselves to a sustainable, self-reliant future.

02/08/2022

celebrated Teej Festival,

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02/10/2021

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MANKAA is the marketing wing of Building Bridges (India), Moonak Centre that has started engaging women from the farming community from the nearby villages for income generation through marketable handmade products. These KARUNA dolls highlight several crafts of Punjab including naala-making (drawst...

Hardeep Dugal a senior TV journalist wearing Phulkari Mask,made by our women in Sangrur. Thanks Hardeep for your best wi...
23/03/2021

Hardeep Dugal a senior TV journalist wearing Phulkari Mask,made by our women in Sangrur. Thanks Hardeep for your best wishes - Ghazala Khan

Silk Phulkari gift bags- made by our women in Sangrur, Punjab
17/01/2021

Silk Phulkari gift bags- made by our women in Sangrur, Punjab

25/09/2020

phulkari masks ....

Phulkari cotton masks- made by women of Sangrur,Punjab
14/07/2020

Phulkari cotton masks- made by women of Sangrur,Punjab

06/07/2020

A mosque in Amritsar has a rare ally. Baljinder Singh (60) has been doing ‘sewa’ at Khairuddin Mosque located in the narrow lanes of the walled city in Amritsar known as Jama Masjid.

19/11/2019

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