PRIVACY POLICY
A) Incense Stick packing : Gaudiya Mission is situated in a locality where a good percentage of women come of very poor families. As such, most of these women would suffer financially and from a sense of helplessness at not being able to supplement the family income. This did not happen due to Gaudiya Mission’s initiatives on vocational training.
The first of these is training the neighborhood women is in the packing of incense sticks, labelling them and making such cartons ready for the market as well as for sale from the Mission’s own counter. Now with some extra money in their purse, these women feel a sense of empowerment and well-being.
B) Floral arrangement : Gaudiya Mission being attached to Sri Gaudiya Math, daily ‘archan’ (worship) and floral decoration of the deities is part of life of the inmates. A good quantity of flower of different varieties are bought from the market as well as supplied by devotees for making garlands, bouquets etc.
Gaudiya Mission has engaged local women to make such floral items. The trained ones, in turn, pass on the expertise to the newcomers. Thus, quite a lot of women are getting trained in making items of floral decoration, much to their own benefit as well as their poor families.
Gaudiya Mission has set up family type biogas plants for meeting the cooking energy needs of its different centres in rural areas of the country along with making enriched organic fertilizer availability for crop cultivation. Centres at Nabadwip and Durgapur in West Bengal, Puri and Remuna in Odisha, and Lucknow, Mughalsarai and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh are now equipped with Bio-gas Plants.
On the one hand these plants have been providing considerable fuel for the cooking of food three to four times a day for the monastic members. House holder devotees and workers as well as scores of visitors, but have also become energy-saving devices. Lights are lit with such gas. The residual cow dung and urine are also used valuable bio-fertiliser which is cheap and environment friendly.