Ohrna is an organization based in India, launched with a dream of helping rural and homebound women earn a living making handmade products.
Ohrna believes in responsible design and has a fourfold focus:
use sustainable materials, employ rural and home-bound women, design contemporary products integrating time-honored crafts and help preserve the rich handmade traditions of India.
Ohrna trains for free and provides raw materials that enable women to work from home. It often employs women with minimum skills.
One of our core beliefs is creating financial freedom and self-worth among home-based women. This lets them balance their family and home commitments, without needing to leave their villages.
Every Ohrna product therefore provides a woman with not just income, but a sense of self-belief.
Thinking hard and long, a year and a half to be precise and fifty names later, 'Ohrna' emerged. And felt just right. The logo and tag line evolved likewise...
Ohrna means ‘veil' in Bengali, a language of India's east. For a woman, an ohrna adorns her attire, provides her the grace and comfort she seeks and shades her from the harshness of the sun.....
Ohrna proudly introduces embroidered jute to wider markets and patronises jute because it is a natural vegetable fiber.
Going forward, Ohrna is envisioned as an organization run by well-wishers and supporters who wish to give back.
Ohrna believes in responsible design. Our focus is fourfold: use of sustainable materials, employment of rural and home-bound women, preservation of rich craft traditions and packaging in up cycled materials. We train for free and often employ women with minimum skills. We design to customers' needs and also constantly adapt our designs for ease of making, for our makers.