Sadhana Ramanjooloo was given the opportunity of coaching 13 women at the National Women Entrepreneur Council (NWEC) in the skill of Patchwork and Quilting. On finding out that many of these women came from low income families, could not afford to buy the fabric pieces required to learn Patchwork, she got the idea of using waste or reject textile pieces. Thus a good quantity of fabric wasted was o
btained from textile tailors, seamstresses and friends. These reject fabrics, instead of ending up in garbage bins, became a teaching resource material for Patchwork and many other handicraft skills. In May 2006, a team of Magic Fingers won the Silver Award in the “INNOVATORS” competition organized by the National Productivity and Competitiveness Council (NPCC) in relation to the reduction, reuse and recycling of textile waste. Following that award, Magic Fingers obtained a good quantity of reject from Socota Textile Mills and New Island Clothing (NIC). As a result of the NPCC award, as a group leader of Magic Fingers, Mrs. Ramanjooloo was nominated by the Commonwealth Secretariat to attend the 5th Commonwealth-India Small Business Competitiveness Development Programme in India in November 2006. In 2007, Mrs. Ramanjooloo grouped a number of women and formed an association. Thus in June 2007, Magic Fingers Association was officially registered.
