Introducing Ekatra: Redefining Luxury Gifting with ustainability and mpowerment x
Welcome to Ekatra, a sustainable brand that offers a range of luxurious gifts crafted with care and commitment. We take pride in our handmade creations and offer customization options to create truly unique and meaningful pieces. Collaborating with major corporate houses, we bring together elegance and sustainability to redefine the art of gifting.
We are Minakshi & Aishwarya Jhawar,a mother daughter duo, looking for mediums to express ourselves. We work with form & functions of basic materials and embed them in our day to day lives
At Ekatra, we are more than just a brand. With women empowerment at the heart of everything we do, we try to engage women from underprivileged communities who have often been exposed less or have received very little education. These are homemakers who become the artisans and designers of ours and their futures.
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Meet the team
We are a female led brand where we work every day to ensure that our team gets to become financially independent and gain new skills along the journey of up cycling, recycling and making. With women empowerment at the heart of everything we do, we try to engage women from underprivileged communities who have often been exposed less or have received very little education. These are homemakers who become the artisans and designers of ours and their futures. These women come from very distinctive backgrounds – we scout them mostly through word of mouth, and they join us for variety of reasons, each as unique as they are – but end us uniting for their passion to move the community forward. Along with women empowerment, our another key focus is the environmental impact. We are conscious of our sourcing, we work with azo free cloth in organic cotton, and we are also trying to be intention of the waste that we leave behind. Whatever paper and cloth residues are left in our workshop, it is up cycled into a smaller product or our business cards. Even smaller paper shreds are then convert into recycled paper and further used in production. We work with bamboo paper for creating a more elaborate gifting experience for you all.
Real women Real stories
Coming from a decent background, Arshi was livingwell with her family that included her husband, fourdaughters and one son. Things started deterioratingwith the bad health of her husband and his backcondition. She had to step forward for her family andtheir well-being, thus she joined ekatra after learningabout it from her friend Anjum. She has evolved withtime and experience through her journey with us. Afterseeing people, independent & speaking fluent English,on our trip to Mumbai, she wants to send her childrento English medium school, have them attend the computer classes and attain that level of success.
Arshi
The sweet-sugar of our team, Tasneem is theice-breaker of our craftswomen arm-force, veryoptimistic and ideatic women who inspires otherin case of crisis. With a family of 6 membersincluding her four children, she is the breadweaner along with her husband and they bothwant to educate their children for their futureendeavours
Tasneem
As one of the victim of COVID-19, Farzana andher family lost her 3 dairy and lands due tofamily disputes, that left them with almost nosource of income. The worsening condition ofher family demanded her to step forward fortheir wellbeing, and now she’s is capableenough to send her two sons to school.
Farzana
Acche se padhana hai betiyon ko, fir acche ghar me shaadi karani hai. Akele inke kamane se ghar nhi chalta, hume bhi aage badna padega.” I’ll have to provide education to my daughters & marry them to a good family. His (her husband’s) earning is not enough to run the family, I’ll have to step forward – says the previous beedi maker and now our senior most crafts-women who joined ekatra through the word of mouth, for the better future of her 3 daughters. Along with beedi making she used to stitch clothes to make a way with the fluctuating earnings of her family as her husband is an auto-driver. She has developed her stitching skills and enjoys the work that curated her own identity