Solar-Powered Looms: Doubling Income & Women's Empowerment

• Experience Resham Sutra, a Delhi-based social enterprise, and help empower women artisans across India to double their income with solar-powered looms. Purchasing these machines reduces CO2 emissions and overcomes unreliable electricity supplies. Support Resham Sutra in expanding their reach and helping provide loans to artisans.

Resham Sutra, a Delhi-based social enterprise, is selling solar-powered looms to women artisans across India, allowing them to double their income whilst avoiding the laborious and painful process of thigh-reeling silk cocoons. The enterprise has sold 20,000 machines in the past four years and estimates each of these is preventing 850 kilograms of CO2 emissions per year. Additionally, the solar power allows producers to be productive at all times, irrespective of an unreliable electricity supply. The enterprise is looking to expand its reach, but is in need of policy support and provision of loans for artisans in order to purchase the machines.

How Can Solar Looms Double Artisans' Income and Reduce CO2 Emissions?

• The solar-powered looms allow artisans to double their income whilst avoiding the laborious and painful process of thigh-reeling silk cocoons.
• Each solar-powered loom prevents 850 kilograms of CO2 emissions per year.
• The solar power allows producers to work uninterruptedly due to its ability to generate energy independently, regardless of electricity supply.
• To expand its reach, Resham Sutra is in need of policy support and loan provision for artisans to purchase the machines.
• Solar-powered looms are also beneficial to the environment, with the machines having the potential to reduce CO2 emissions that standard looms may produce.
• Additionally, the machines are powered by the sun, meaning artisans do not have to purchase additional resources to fuel them.