Nayuma Cooperative offers women chance to not only shop, but also sell homemade products

LIFESTYLE EXHIBITION CUM SALE BEGINS IN NAMCHI
PURAN TAMANG
NAMCHI, 26 May: A “Lifestyle Exhibition-cum-Sale” was inaugurated here at the Parking Plaza-cum-Shopping Complex by chairman, Tea Board, Gagan Rai. This, incidentally, is the first exhibition-cum-sale of such scale in the South District Headquarter town and has been organised by the Nayuma Women’s Cooperative Society Ltd. A unique feature of the sale is that interested women with homemade products to sell can contact the organisers and get space to sell the products. The Cooperative Society does not plan to charge any fee from such ladies and has even offered to help them with marketing!
The organising committee of the cooperative society informed media persons that the main motive of the sale was to encourage local people to do something to become a self-reliant. The event, they add, will also offer visitors better products at lower prices.

TT Bhutia, Nayuma Women’s Cooperative’s Management and Office in-charge, informs that the most unique part of this exhibition-cum-sale was that the locals can bring homemade products for sale at the event on their own and also receive guidance and assistance from the cooperative society which has substantial experience in hosting such events.
The society also offered earning opportunities for interested women trained in any skill provided they were willing to work hard.
The exhibition-cum-sale also includes stalls of various products from different parts of the country. Right from the stalls of Nayuma Women’s Cooperative Society, there is a variety of goods n offer – from home appliances, to furniture, traditional dresses, footwear, clothes, carpets, sofas, jewellery.