Japanese traditional ecobag in Sujata village, India

In Sujata village, 

there’s a community center for women

 called “Sujata Ashram”.

 In the Ashram, village women can learn skills

 to generate money such as sawing.

Former article about the Ashram is here.

 The other day, 

we made Japanese traditional reusable shopping bag 

called Azuma-bukuro with girls 

who come to learn how to saw to the Ashram!

“Making Azuma-bukuro with Indian girls at Sujata Ashram”

Why Japanese eco-bag Azuma-bukuro…?

Because…

We want to change the situation of the village 

full of garbage everywhere.

“The current situation of garbage of Sujata village”

There’s NO collecting system of garbage, 

without segregation, 

garbage from houses are thrown away 

to the street or vacant land…

We hope the village to regain 

the beauty by reducing garbage.

“Beautiful agricultural field of Sujata village”

So, we start from what we can do.

That’s why we introduced Japanese Azuma-bukuro 

as a shopping bag to reduce plastic bags. 

To reduce plastic garbage which is not biodegradable 

and harmful is one of the most important things.

And to reduce plastic usage, 

reducing plastic bag is necessary.

Azuma-bukuro is made by rectangular cloth 

only sawing two parts. 

It’s Japanese traditional reusable bag.

You can avoid making waste pieces from cutting cloth 

and it looks so cute!

  

“How to make Azuma-bukuro”

We made Azuma-bukuro with the cloth 

used as bath towel and called Gamcha in India.

 It’s very common in India 

and every house has this cloth. 

Our Azuma-bukuro is a fusion of India and Japan!

We explained how to saw and started sawing.

Less than one hour, it was done!!!

“Azuma-bukuro made by Indian Gamcha”

As a first trial, we made very simple way,

 But we wish to make this bag to sell 

by adding originality and raising quality.

 This shopping bag, 

Azuma-bukuro shall be loved by village women 

and we hope that tourists from all over the world 

will love and buy the bags.

This will be one of the way to generate money

for village women.

We hope you'll be looking forward to it.

“With Azuma-bukuro which girls made!”

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