For our first project, we looked to a region where much of the world’s products and services are outsourced—India.  Infinite Earth teamed up with Dr. Prabhavati Dwabha, the director of a rural development project in northern India, with decades of experience in creating and running clinics, primary schools and vocational programs in below-poverty-line villages in the area.  The meeting resulted in our decision to fund a self-supporting facility for the north Indian village of Chamba: a weaving center that will be owned and operated by the villagers.  The new weaving center will improve the working conditions of the local women by replacing the two dilapidated looms used by the entire village with a group of ten to twenty new looms.  The proceeds will go towards improving the living standards of the women and children of Chamba through health care and education programs.

The building and looms are funded through the sale of a photographic multiple, Infinite #1.  The edition of 30 prints was produced collaboratively by two of Infinite Earth’s founding members, Alona Harpaz and Mika Rottenberg.  Infinite #1 was named for the foundation and its mission—the first of an infinite series, and the first gesture in a cycle of redistribution.

In 2008, a new spacious building was constructed in the Chamba village hosting the "Infinite Earth Center". At the Infinite Earth Center, dozens of village women are trained in weaving; this allows them to work in the center for several hours per day and improve their household conditions. Yarn was given to numerous women in the more remote areas, allowing them to weave it into thread in their free time and generate income for their household. Infinite Earth supported the purchase of new school desks for "Ramans Gardens", a home and school for orphans and destitute children in Laxman Jula, Rishikesh. Infinite Earth supported the purchase of new floor mats and fresh water containers for a remote elementary school in the mountains village of Hoon khal, in Theri district.

The first batch of beautiful Angora scarves arrived from Infinite Earth Center; they are available as a gift for any donation of 50 Euros or more. For more information regarding our Angora scarves, please email:
infinite.earth09@gmail.com. 100 percent of donations from the Infinite Earth Scarves will go to fund our upcoming projects:

In Spring 2009 Infinite Earth will: Establish small individual scholarships to support higher education for young women of the villages of Chamba and Theri district. Open a small sewing school for young women, in Rusha Farm, Dehradon district. Open a small preschool in Gulrani plantation, Dehradon district.

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