Here are some of the skills that our members have now:

• chair weavers/cainers (19 of whom are blind)
• 2 tailors
• 5 small businessmen
• 6 electricians
• 20 hairdressers
• 30 students

Our biggest hope now is to form a ‘Jigiya Work Center’, which would support the working efforts of our members. In the USA, this might be called a cooperative. Here is a list of materials that we have identified so far that would help us:

• chair weaving materials
• paints for dying clothes
• electric sewing machines (now, a Jigiya tailor is using a foot powered sewing machine, but his handicap is with his legs, so his productivity is reduced)
• soldering machines
• electrical supplies
• hair dressing materials (gels, cosmetics, beads)
• computers for the students
• bicycle chain (one of our members has a tricycle, but not chain for her to power it with her arms. This reduces he mobility, because she needs to wait for someone to push her.)

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