In the slums of Mumbai, the largest city in India, many women
have been abandoned by their husbands and forced to provide for themselves and their children. Most of these women married young and have no training or job skills.

Many of these women are driven to beg or to prostitute themselves in order to survive. But because of the love of Christ, there is a way for them.

“I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me.”                                                - John 14:6

Kalpana Center – Mumbai, India

At the Kalpana Center, women are selected and trained to make pressed flower cards that they can sell in order to support themselves and their children.

Not only are they able to make a meaningful wage,
but they are experiencing for the first time the love of their Redeemer in daily Bible study and prayer time.

The women work five hours a day, sorting and drying flowers one day a week, and creating cards the other days. As the sole source of their income, they earn four times what they would make if they worked ten hours a day as a maid.

Through the Kalpana Center, Jesus has become the way to the
Father for many women. When you buy cards or bookmarks designed by Kalpana, you can help support these women’s futures, and bring hope for many more women who have yet to find a way.

“The Kalpana Project is an excellent program that for ten years has trained women from the slums of Mumbai to make press dried flower cards and bags. They are paid a good wage
for their quality work. Once in the program, they receive testing
and skill training so that after a year they can move onto a better
higher paying job.”
- Dr. Edward Bradley, Founder of Oakseed Ministries International