WHAT WE DO?

  • College students are actively engaged in stitching cloth bags, mobile pouches and pencil cases that they sell through STEP’s promotional activities. Their latest venture is Changathi Cheppu (reasonably priced pencil pouches). Various committees have also been formed to steer forward the activities.
  • Video tutorials with instructions to manufacture the various cloth bags and an awareness documentary on the hazards of plastic waste have been prepared by students and uploaded on the Suchitwa Mission of Kerala website for public access (find links below).
  • Students have also trained more than 1000 Kudumbasree members in 80 Panchayats in Ernakulum District and various self-help groups in the other districts of Kerala in stitching such bags. In rural areas, the common strategy is to encourage people to get their own old clothes upcycled into such trendy products at very reasonable rates using the paid services of SHG groups.
  • The STEP members of the college have been delivering conference bags, Prakriti bags and Bhoomitra Sanchis for various conferences and seminars conducted at GIFT (Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation), TIECON, GULATI and several other organisations since 2016.