Aftertaste India

Aftertaste is a social enterprise started with the vision to empower women of the low income communities through creation of sustainable livelihood opportunities using art and craft thus enabling their families to break the vicious cycle of social and economic poverty. Aftertaste works with unskilled women from an extremely disadvantaged community of Ambuzwadi in Malwani, Malad (West), Mumbai. Aftertaste has imparted training to handcraft and design niche paper products to women who were completely unskilled with no or negligible literacy. Since Aftertaste’s intervention, it has generated dignified livelihood opportunities for 16 women and impacted 60 indirect beneficiaries. The women’s earning has led to an increase in the monthly income of their house-hold by 50% to 60%. AfterTaste is run in a self sustaining manner where the women earn their livelihood from the revenue generated from the sale of their handcrafted paper products. Aftertaste aims to impact 25 women by March 2016 and has a dream of reaching out to 100 women by 2019. It needs support in the form of point of sales for its products through exhibitions, orders, supply to retail outlets etc to achieve this goal.