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Waste To Wealth: Women-led rope weaving cluster generating 300+ Green Jobs

Nestled amidst the plains of a small town, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, lives Gauhar Fatima. Mother of two and the entrepreneur behind the Rope Weaving Cluster. The cluster is a green enterprise that upcycles industrial textile waste into ropes and then weaves it into different types of furniture. This is a traditional art of the weaving community in the region and this legacy is passed down through generations and women are the keepers of this tradition.