Update on Service in India

In March 1978, Joyce Fren, then First Vice President of Quota International, initiated a small group of Delhi Quotarians into Quota International, with Deep Dugal as Founding President.

Nearly a quarter century later, the Delhi Quota club is a big group of 80-some members who feel very proud of the project they have adopted—the Quota Home for Abandoned and Destitute Women. It is a unique project in Quota history and a product of our organization's Club-to-Club World Service Program.

Today, scores of women and young girls from the neighborhood slum dwellings have received training at our centers. They now earn a living through work at the Home in our Learn to Earn programs. Their knitted, stitched, and embroidered garments are being produced under the able guidance of dedicated members, like Chander Aurora and Madhu Sethi. These items are proving very popular and are in great demand from our membership.

In addition, we are able to display these items at several Melas in Delhi during the festive season.

Part of the financial support given to Quota International of New Delhi for the operation of the Quota Home is used to provide knitting machines. These machines are used to teach the young women from the surrounding slum areas how to make garments, which are sold by the Quotarians on the women's behalf. Photo courtesy Past International President Beris Pritchard.

Being a purely volunteer organization, no Quota project can materialize without unflinching patronage from our many friends in town who always answer our call for help.

We are extremely grateful to Quota International for extending help through the Club-to-Club Program. And we enjoy most generous support from our own membership.

The generous support we receive, especially the outstanding gift [click to read more about this grant] offered by the Morton H. Meyerson Family Tzedakah Funds of Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., in honor of David Nathan Meyerson, Marti Meyerson Hooper, Marlene Nathan Meyerson, and Leslie Meyerson Gordon, enable us to delve deeper in our efforts to help the most deprived and needy become self-sufficient, leading a life of dignity.

We thank you all.

—Vijaya Pandit