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 suicide following the death of their husbands (rooted in the practice of Sati). Research says that another reason for high suicide rates amongst Indian females is domestic violence. Most women I met had been married off at a young age, and forced to become a wife and a daughter-in-law. They spend entire days at home doing household chores. All sorts of restrictions are placed on them, with rare access to any personal money. When husbands pass, women are forced to beg on the streets, or sometimes turn to prostitution in order to provide for their families. Nanda is helping widowed women to carve a life after marriage, and tribal/ young women who have been side-lined in society and deprived of education, health facilities, and economic opportunities to create a better future for themselves - independently of men.

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Click here: INSTAGRAM FOR SHOPPING: moltowbellohandicrafts

All products come directly from Nanda in Jodhpur (funded through fundraisers) and then sold here so that all profits can go back to Nanda at Moltow Bello so that more women can work for their freedom, and become independent from men and the lives forged for them.

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Some items are NOT backed. Some have loose threads. or little holes. Some need some work done to them. Some have some dried mud on the back due to the floods in India this year (2025). But they are authentic, beautiful, and have been made by the most beautiful of souls. They are little passion projects.

ALL prices can be negotiated for what you would be willing to spend - every little helps - and will be sent directly to Moltow Bello to help women on the ground.

Please email me and Nanda at moltowbellohandicrafts@gmail.com or message me on Instagram if you are interested in purchasing an item.

FUNDRAISERS

Please donate on: Just Giving

I will be organising some mini fundraisers but mainly, am I walking a customised 40 mile walk - which started in August 2025. I will cover around 8 miles each walk and then complete the walk on dates TBC. For each of the 5 walks, I hope to raise £500 which will be sent to Nanda at Moltow Bello to help women on the ground, and also for Nanda to afford to send their handicrafts to the UK for further sale - with all profits going back to Moltow Bello. The exchange rate and prices of items between the UK and India will ensure that these transactions make a fundamental and life changing difference to those women in Jodhpur.

Please join the walks and keep an eye on Instagram for updates.

Address: Just around the corner from Singhvi's Haveli guest house Navchokiya, Ramdeo Ji ka Chowk, Jodhpur, Rajasthan 342001

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