Blue Mango Trust is an Income Generation Program for Marginalized Women in Rural South India. The program enables these women to gain financial stability and emotional self reliance. Blue Mango runs by Fair Trade principles and Social Business standards. All of our profits are reinvested in the program, improving our business and enhancing the women’s lives. Benefits made possible by the women’s hard work: Blue Mango gives priority to: HIV affected women, widows, abandoned women, physically disabled women, victims of domestic abuse & impoverished women

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Leela has breast cancer. To help her out with her medical bills, please donate below. On behalf of Leela, thank you! Katrina - Red Persimmon Imports My name is Leela. I grew up in Kerala in the extended family home. I was the last in a line of nine children and my parents didn't have the funds to send me to school beyond 10th Standard. Besides, my brother had four children and I had to stay home and take care of them.   I had a love marriage with no dowry. I don't like the dowry system.  If you have a love marriage and like each other then you can have a lifetime of happiness. I'm teaching my boys not to consider dowry when choosing a wife.   My husband works in Kerala for Catholic Relief Agency. Women aren't allowed on the campus where he lives, so we live apart and he visits me once a month. After the children left home I became lonely and depressed. Because I didn't want to get a bad reputation, I never left the house. I never rode a bus. I had no self confidence. Rajakumari was my neighbor and she invited me to join Blue Mango. I am the one that Tamar  sends to Madurai for mailing parcels. I am Quality Control Supervisor. Now I even go to Chennai on  my own. My sons and  husband are so proud of me. Blue Mango has a reputation as a safe haven for women and it is here that I have  found friendships and self confidence.