Meet Kokila Deshpande, who’s changing the life of homebound women by helping them make sturdy newspaper bags
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Architect Kokila Deshpande runs Ayvakta, an NGO that is empowering rural and urban women and promoting an organic lifestyle with its flagship product – durable newspaper bags.
Most of us start the day with a newspaper and a hot cup of tea. But the life of the newspaper is over much before the day comes to an end. It is stacked up with other old newspapers; at the end of the month, the pile is sold off to a
raddiwala. Kokila Deshpande is making durable newspaper bags that can take weight up to 5kg