Artisan ID #: TEK-A-08
When you ask Hasumati about her life, she tells you that she adores her mother-in-law for sanctioning her love marriage.
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Aside from working on our organic cotton pillows and caring for her family, Hasumati works part-time in a beauty parlor shaping eyebrows.
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Hasumati has been married for fourteen years and has two children.
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With arthritis making work painful at times, Hasumati has started using a small portion of earnings for ayurvedic treatment.
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Hasumati smiles when she tells us, "I firmly believe love solves all things."
A stylish woman happily married, Hasumati is a self-proclaimed "foodie!"
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In her sparse free time, she loves to try cooking various new dishes with new spice combinations for her family.
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Hasumati's husband is a retailer who buys children's clothing at wholesale prices, then sells them along the footpath leading to a nearby garden.
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Aside from the embroidery work and the beauty parlor work, the family's income is painfully sporadic.
Hasumati is a modern-thinking woman with a conveniently modern-thinking mother-in-law!
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She hopes that the earnings from her work that go toward ayurvedic treatment will cure her of the arthritis that sometimes makes work difficult.
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Hasumati dreams about her children receiving a degree from their local college. They would be the first in the family!
Hasumati enjoys the relationships she's built with other women as a result of her work.
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The income embroidery provides helps her pay for ayurvedic treatments for her arthritis.
Hasumati's children receive free text books, and the whole family benefits from the food security loan program.