Moltow Bello Handicrafts - Jodhpur
Welcome to Moltow Bello Handicrafts - Jodhpur I visited Jodhpur in March 2025. Here, I met Nanda who runs Moltow Bello Handicraft - a Rajasthani organisation that supports tribal, young brides, and widowed women become independent.💫🧶 In March 2025, Nanda had employed 72 widowed and vulnerable women from all castes to assist them in becoming independent following the deaths of their husbands, or to create hope for a future in their own right. Nanda explained that even now, women are often encouraged to commit Sati - a largely historical Hindu practice in which a widow burns alive on her deceased husband's funeral pyre, either voluntarily, by coercion, or by a perception of the lack of satisfactory options for continuing to live. Moreover, research says that a reason for high suicide rates amongst Indian females is domestic violence. Most women I met in Rajasthan had been married off at a young age, and forced to become a wife and a daughter-in-law. The...
