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Huntsman-backed stitching unit to ‘empower women’

12/04/2013

India’s Footwear Design and Development Institute is launching a footwear stitching unit for women in the town of Kolathara, Kerala, today to train and employ unskilled workers in footwear making. The Hindu Times reported that the Minister for Social Welfare and Panchayat [assembly], AK Muneer, will inaugurate the unit, which it described as “a...

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