Angela D. Coleman, Ìbíyínká Oladojá Oyèwọlá, is a nonprofit executive, social entrepreneur, and scholar-practitioner dedicated to transforming communities through innovation, systems-level thinking, and equity-centered solutions.
Shannon Keith is helping and healing women and girls in India with Sudara.
As sisters, we can combine healing women and social entrepreneurship in India and in other places, too. The business of Sudara began when founder Shannon Keith took a trip to India. When she saw women and girls being sexually and economically exploited, she decided to do something about it.
Shannon’s business model takes women off of the streets and out of brothels to gainful employment, healing, and empowerment. Supporting Sudara is supporting sisterhood and sisters in business.
Her story:
A trip to India in 2005 inspired founder Shannon Keith to begin an innovative business venture to create lasting impact for survivors and those at high risk of sex trafficking. The previous year, Shannon had returned from a trip to India where she heard story after story of women who were sold into sex slavery. She also heard stories of women who were at high risk of being forced into the sex trade by their families or picked up off the streets by local pimps. The reasons they were at a high risk? Because they lacked an education or the resources or the skills to have a choice.
She returned home from that trip and formed a small team of family and friends. Together, they looked for groups in India that were compelled to have a positive impact and help women looking for a way out of the Red Light Districts.
The team knew that safe, steady and living-wage employment would be a pathway to freedom and offer choices for women and their families. Source
Many of Sisterhood Agenda’s global partners engage in similar activities. Sudara’s creates and sells a distinct line of apparel for men and women, boys and girls. A sample of her clothing items includes Punjammies, People are Not Property shirts, and beach wraps:
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