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<strong>1. A little history</strong><br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> Till <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Independance</st1:city></st1:place><st1:place w:st="on">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India </st1:country-region></st1:place>was composed of a big chunk directly or indirectly administered </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;">by the </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;">British, an</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;">d the remaining pieces of the puzzle-like territory was under Maharajas </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;">or Sultans.</span><br />
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One of these kingdoms at the extreme North (the
upper Ganges forming an<br />
unbridgeable natural frontier to the South) and up to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Tibet</st1:country-region>, was the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Tehri-Garhwal</st1:placename></st1:place>.</div>
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Composed entirely of middle to high mountains,
the area was thinly populated, but its importance was of being the undisputed
place for <st1:place w:st="on">Ganga</st1:place> and Yamuna rivers original
sources, an immense appeal for hundreds of millions of hindous as pilgrimage
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Apart for various neighbours (Kumaoni and
Nepalese) conquest attempts in the last 5 centuries, the place was left alone
by Moghuls and British alike.</div>
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Leprosy was much prevalent , and the lepers
were very badly considered and treated: after some time sent to isolated sheep
pastures, they usually were forced to scamper away, lest they would be locked
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Going away meant begging in less ferocious
conditions, mostly in <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> with its softer
view on their conditions, settled on the outskirts of prosperous cantonment
towns, where they could make a living by begging.<br />
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More unpleasant, but far more profitable was
to get into the land given out specifically to them by Mahendra Shah Maharaj,
on the bank of the Ganges in Rishikesh, last but not least, kingdom out post
and starting point for the annual pilgrims to the Sources of Ganges. <br />
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As pilgrims on the way, it was a religious
duty to offer alms to all temples and dregs of humanity on the way…<br />
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Winters were harsh, the best part of Rishikesh
staying empty with no pilgrim showing, but they could all fall back on a couple
of established ashrams for the minimum dry rations, on top of the savings they
had from the previous pilgrim season.<br />
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2. <strong>The shift.</strong> <br />
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I leave the description to Swami Chidanandaji, who dictated it to me, much later, in a half-circle development.<br />
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<strong> Brief History of the Original Land- Lease Securing at Brahmapuri, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Shivpuri</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Range</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Tehri-Garhwal <o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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<strong>(as per H.H. Shri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj, co-founder recollections) :<o:p></o:p></strong><br />
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<strong>“Above mentioned 10 acres of land { 10 kms away} was granted to the Kusht Nivarak Samiti (Tehri-Garhwal) </strong><strong>in the mid-fifties upon the request of the, then, District Magistrate, Shri Somnath Varma, specifically in order </strong><strong>to construct the present Leprosy Colony premises to house about 120 patients who were to be shifted.<o:p></o:p></strong><br />
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<strong>Their shifting had become necessary due to the flash- flood waters of Chandrabhaga having washed away a considerable portion of the Muni-ki-Reti Leprosy Colony, taking away numerous hutments situated on the Chandrabhaga bank.<o:p></o:p></strong><br />
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<strong>A considerable part of the Funds for the construction of this Colony buildings at Brahmapuri were donated by the, then, U.P.Governor, H.H. K.M. Munshiji; the, then, Chief Minister of U.P., Shri C.M.Guptaji; and the late Revered Shri Kailash Nath Katju Mahodaya, who was, then, in the Central Government.<o:p></o:p></strong><br />
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<strong>These Donations were initially announced at a Public Meeting held at the Jhanda Chowk, </strong><strong>Muni-ki-Reti, in the first week of April. 1953.<o:p></o:p></strong><br />
<strong>The main request for this new Colony at Brahmapuri came from the, then, Manager of the Baba Kamli Kshetr of Rishikesh, Shri L.N. Chaturvedi. IAS (Retd).”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(End of Quotation.)<o:p></o:p></strong><br />
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In 1957 the Committee and resettlement area were secured. By 1959,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lodging and dispensaryn along with “Cottage Industry” room and implement were ready for occupation for 80 people.<br />
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So the first batch of Leprosy patients were shifted from Dhalvala to Brahmapuri, while more construction for the remaining 40 and Doctor’s bungalow were pursued.<br />
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If the dry rations promised were available, no truck was available for reaching them to this new location, 10 Km away, through a dirt road; alternatively it could be said that nobody cared to arrange the transport of those food bags…<br />
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People survived on their judicious use of decent kitchen gardens, and the food rations reached some time every other month, or though the Contractor’s building materials trucks (not many, as all building were built of stones, local sand and mud!)<br />
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At district headquarters, the appointed clerk for receiving the State Annual promised grant, purchasing government controlled sugar, kerosene oil, subsidized cloth, was not quite motivated, and papers and forms were ruling the show, (people reimbursing their “expenses” from the meagre grant on the way), so that hardly anything reached the patients.<br />
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The Medic (whether doctor or not) did not show up more than a couple of times, and it is no wonder to understand why, when the last 40 quarters were ready the following year, the remaining 40 patients of Dhalvala refused to “join” the promised eldorado!<br />
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<strong>3. The lean years 1960-72.<o:p></o:p></strong>
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For the 80 Leprosy patients shifted to Brahmapuri, the disease and life were a real misery:<br />
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-Without real treatment yet to be found against Leprosy, the bacilli continued their ravages into the final stage of destroying the optical nerves, if the patients lived long enough…<br />
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-Without real treatment yet to be
found against Leprosy, the bacilli continued their ravages into the final stage
of destroying the optical nerves, if the patients lived long enough…<br />
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- They did not even have the
dubious comfort to be seen by other humans which they could do as “alms-boxes”,
and only the spiritual radiations of Swami Sivanandaji and his successor Swami
Chidanandaji could alleviate their plea.<br />
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- At times the food situation was
so bad, that the inmates undertook a “famine-walk” through Rishikesh<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>city and ashrams, (a 30 Kms affair on badly
ulcerated feet!)<br />
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Each time they were given promises after
promises, kept<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for a couple or two
months.<br />
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Also, from 1967 Swami Chidananda managed to convince a Leprosy Paramedical trained worker, Ravindra Kumar, to come and do medical and social work for Brahmapuri. He and his wife were offered a room in Sivananda Ashram, a bicycle and some medicines were provided for the job.<br />
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Still these arrangements did not really solve any long-term problems, and when Major T. Ramachandra (my tutor in the field of social work) took Agnes Kunze, and Pierre Reyniers for a look at the Brahmapuri camp on the festive day of Dussehra, in October 1967, Agnes Kunze and I were aghast at the level of despondency and dejection offered by the patients amorphous and in sad looking condition. On the way back to Dehra-Dun, we met Swami Chidanandaji and Swami Ragunathanandaji, who took good notice of the 5 year-old serious start of a Rehabilitation project with a committed person like Agnes Kunze and Pierre Reyniers.<br />
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Back to Nalapani, Dehra-Dun, Agnes and I felt very bad on the pitiful conditions of the patients in Brahmapuri, and even though of a half-baked project of shifting our joint forces in favour of this forlorn place…<br />
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Still the work of Nalapani Leprosy colony was far from being a smooth ongoing affair, with the successive long term-volunteers, Gina Hald and David MacPhail (who needed training too!), and we realized that the long march was before us, and not behind, human potentialities on hand needing a lot of time and nurturing so that expertise in any technical field would become a second nature to all concerned, brought about by hurdles after hurdles to overcome.<br />
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So the Brahmapuri project stayed in the drawer, the only help we could provide was when the new social worker, R. Kumar came a few times asking for a “food-loan” for the Brahmapuri people, loan we knew fully well he would never be in a position to pay back.<br />
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The stalemate break came in 1971, when an ardent devotee of Swami Chidamandaji was appalled at the situation of the begging lepers from the original Colony of Dhalvala, joined by a very thriving alm-receiving settlement on the road to the famous Lakshman jhula foot-bridge.<br />
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That person, Donna Simonetta Colonna di Cesaro, had left her Haute Couture business in <st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>, and offered her fortune and business acumen under Swamiji’s Blessings.<br />
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Along with lessening personally a few obvious needs in those colonies and Brahmapuri Leprosy Colony, which appealed to her sense of beauty and of earnestness since the inmates were making the most of their kitchen gardens and not begging, she appealed to her contacts.<br />
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Still it was through Swami Chidananda that she heard that a relatively seasoned volunteer, Pierre Reyniers, was on a prolonged”sabbatical”.<br />
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In the spring of 1972, Swamiji wrote me a letter to Paris and proposed I start Leprosy Rehabilitation work in Brahmapuri, on the lines of Agnes Kunze action in Dehra-Dun, and first of all to meet D. Simonetta at her Paris residence.<br />
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Thus, it was without any hesitation, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after meeting D. Simonetta, who promised all necessary logistical and financial support, that I embarked in a “white, second hand Mini-Austin” model (according to her specific wishes) to join the Brahmapuri boat, as a “starter”.<br />
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It is thus, after reaching safely India, Dehra-Dun (with a Bavarian traditional Spinning wheel all the way from Munich, that Agnes Kunze, Swami Chidananda, and Pierre Reyniers, in that order, bringing half a dozen of Indian Gandhi’s spinning wheels and a foot-carding machine, textile-work started under a tree, on the Banks of Mother Gangaji on Indian Independance day 1972.<br />
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Pierre Reyniers<br />
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</div>KKM Handweavinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605039897316982597noreply@blogger.com74tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185285282203980129.post-25695815236768163132011-12-16T19:55:00.000-08:002011-12-16T19:55:03.032-08:00A HISTORY OF TRANSFORMATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">following long <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></span>history of the first decade highlighting </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">the formation of KKM Handweaving Society may seem redundant to some; it is in fact the own written and printed version of Ms Agnes, putting her Motto in practice herself "learning by recollecting", which emphasize the unshakable basis of her vision, we still try to follow while adjusting to the new XXIth Century conditions.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> FROM BEGGAR TO WORKER </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> In the beginning, </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">10 years ago, there was not more than the idea to found, as a Catholic Institution, a Home for the Lepers in the usual style. They should live as suffering community, well looked after, cared for body and soul alike, guided to lead a moral life and, to avoid idleness and mischief, they should work a little, according to their limited abilities.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">An experiment in living with them was to produce more ideas later on, but at this early stage there was no knowledge, neither of medical facts nor of the social context, no programme, no vision of the future – in brief, there was nothing, which is, according to Christian belief, the basis of Divine creation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Yet this is only one aspect and not the full view, because there were people, each of them burdened with his own history, unknown to others, especially to those, who had ideas for them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">They were begging in the streets, at railway stations, in front of temples and - more profitable – churches and priest house. The front of the Bishops House in Meerut was cleared by sending 30 steady customers (after taking a group picture of them – suitable perhaps for grand-style begging from Aid organizations and a compassionate public in foreign countries) up to Dehra Dun, to settle them there downside of town on a stony and waterless plot beyond the parish cemetery, as usual. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Th</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ere is nothing unusual in this start. Till today, “Leper Homes” are founded this way, and by the same motives, and many, perhaps most of them, you will find situated alike: beyond the cemetery or the burning place, beyond death. The non-infected wife of a leper, after he is sent away from the community, shaves her head and wears the white undercoated sari of a widow. He does not belong to the society of the living anymore. How could he dare and come back!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">M</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">odern science is upsetting the traditional concept. The leper becomes a leprosy patient, gets cured from his disease, sometimes even his deformities may be repaired by surgery, and he is, what he is not supposed to be, alive again! The Hospitals where he got successfully treated, sends him “back home”-as to read from the official statistics, although the Doctors of the Mission Hospitals know pretty well that they can locate most of their former patients in one of the numerous beggar colonies.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">There is, of course, a better way of controlling the disease through ambulant treatment by Leprosy Centres, springing up now all over the country, a way which will not anymore in the future uproot people affected by leprosy from their original soil. Yet this sort of treatment is not available for everyone. The patient in the <place w:st="on">Himalaya</place> village will still have to wander down to the valley in search of treatment, often a journey of 2-4 weeks, and behind him break the bridges.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Sent back home” means for most of them begging, where one who has acquired a few deformities makes better business. Having managed to get admission to a Home makes little difference means only that one can rest there in peace without having to make an effort to earn a living. Even if he is now called leprosy patient, he is still looked at and despised as “leper”, banned from public meetings, like religious services, not anymore now for reasons of health alone! The people of Kripaon Ki Mata Colony were not spared this bitter experience at a time when their weaving products had already found a market.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Since the start was “as usual”, we ask ourselves how it came that our way went very much off the usual track. Has it been because of the “climate” of the times, a global atmosphere filled with such enormous changes, that even a rather isolated place like a small Leprosy colony in the jungle cannot escape to be affected? An accidental combination of circumstances? Karma, Kismat, Providenve, destination or chance?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Instead of asking futile questions, let’s try to recollect dates and facts:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1in;"><u style="font-size: 19px;">Dates and facts:</u><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> 1962</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">March</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Purchase of a one and a half acres of land on the outskirts of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Dehra Dun</place></city> by <span style="font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Parish</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">priest, for enlarging cemetery. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Decisions of the Archbishop of Meerut to use </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">this land</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for his </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">already planned Leper colony.</span></span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">April </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> 30 "lepers" sent by the Bishop to <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Dehra Dun</city></place>, staying under the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">trees, while the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first quarter building for them is under construction.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">May </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Supported with food rations by the parish priest, some </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of them </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">get themselves employed by the building con</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">tractor and earn a daily wage </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in addition. They were </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">not asked to pay for their food, but to establish </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> the money a community fund. There never </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">was one. The cry </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for "equality" came years later—in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a different context.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">July, 2nd </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Inauguration </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">by the Bishop of Meerut (President), who </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">appoints the Parish priest as </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> ex officio Director, Miss Agnes </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kunze (Social worker from <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Germany</place></country-region>) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">as superintendent, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and Havildar Parman Singh, already leader of the </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">group </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">settled here now, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">as Headman 0f "KRIPAON KI MATA </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">LEPER COLONY".</span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Approached through friends in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Germany</place></country-region>, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the German </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Leprosy Relief Association </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(DAHW) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">agrees to finance the m</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">aintenance of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the inmates, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">on the condition that a Home </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">industry will </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">be established, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for which a </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">start capital is </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">provided.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> DAHW also pays, in answer to the Bishops </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">application, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> the quarter building and the land, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">registered in the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">name of the Parish priest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1963 </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Construction of Building No. 2, through local contractor, (financed by DAHW): <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Staff quarter and small workshop. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(Now, since 1969, Spinning workshop and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">head office)</span></span></span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">December</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Arrival of Klaus Becker from <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Germany</place></country-region>, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">trained </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mechanic.</span> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1964 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Beginning of "Klaus·era" (l964—December 1967</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The first community project : Latrine building. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Non-community project, through contractor :</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dispensary, second and third quarter building, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">leading </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to further admissions through Bishop of Meerut. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">August</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Employment of first worker on wage, to give one more </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">man, in spite of restrictions, a chance for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">admission. He builds </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">himself a hut under </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the trees. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Construction of the First loom. Handweaving starts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">1965 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Beginning of handspinning, weaving of own clothes and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the first market product: Handspun Cotton rug.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> The first (ration supported) weaver leaves, because of too </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">much work; </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">he prefers begging. The second weaver still </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">weaving today, 1972), </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">producing one Cotton rug per day, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">goes to the Bazar in the evening, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to sell his product for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the material price to any passerby, who is happy to get </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">cheap piece.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Experiments in manufacture and sale of candles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">August</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Employment of Salim, a stranger from the road, who </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">turns a </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">spooling wheel, until he is, after several weeks </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">detected as a </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">skilled weaver. (Today, 1972, workshop </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">manager).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">November</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Land purchase, from private donations of friends, by Klaus Becker, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to settle there wage earning ex-patient workers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1966 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Change of purpose of a MISEREORgrant for poultry farm (Application by Bishop of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Meerut</place></city>) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in favour of a bigger workshop, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the present one being </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">already too crowded with 3 looms and a few </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">spinning and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">spooling wheels. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4th (and last) Quarter building in the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Colony, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">through Contractor, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">financed from MISEREOR grant, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">through </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bishop of <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Meerut</city></place>. New admissions. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1966-67</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Construction of WEAVING HALL. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Design and Supervision: Klaus Becker</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Material costs: MISEREOR</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Labour: Leprosy patients and ex-patients, i.e. Colony </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">inmates </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and employed workers, their wages </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">being paid by private donations. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In their time off`, the employed workers are </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">making their own bricks </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for their quarters </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">which they also start to construct in 1967 on the Klaus </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Becker-land, the first 10 men Building being completed </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">by beginning of 1968.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Enter OXFAM with grants for 6 looms, carding machine, cow, labour for<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">cowshed construction and irrigation. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">75% Reduction of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">water charges for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">use of Municipality pipeline, by </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Board, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Dehra Dun </city></place></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cultivation of all the available land </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and cow—experi</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ment not very successful, but serving <span style="font-size: 14pt;">as education to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">regular work for the colony inmates, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">while the constructions of cowshed and irrigation </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">system </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and </span></span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">weaving is mostly done by ex-patients on </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">wages </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(former construction workers now trained in weaving) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">under </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">supervision of Pierre Reyniers, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with colony inmates now obliged </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to spin </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">at least </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for their own clothes ( "no thread-no cloth !").</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Beginning of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the "age of production", </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">resulting for the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first time in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a net income of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rs. l000—for the year 68.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">August</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Participation in an exhibition at the Convention of the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Catholic Hospital Association in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Delhi</place></city> enables us to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">show for the first time our handloom products to a wider </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">public, leading to a few orders from </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">hospitals.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">September</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Arrival of Gina Hald </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(—-December </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1969), </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">who </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">changes her profession" from animal husbandry </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to human nursing, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">taking over the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">medical work </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">from Agnes Kunze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Founding of Nursery-and Pre - school by </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ex- patient </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">worker K. Bangaraiah, former construction coolie, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">then weaver, then medical assistant. Music in his spare time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">1969 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> "The revolutionary year”: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Trying to make full time work for all </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">colony inmates </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">obligatory met </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with a strong opposition and lead to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">near </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">disaster on the morning </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of 12.3.1969, then, in the evening </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the same day, to the turning point: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Resolution of the all-men council </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(wage </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">earners excluded), </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">lead by </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the Headman: Everyone, women </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">included, shall </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">voluntarily work </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">daily 4 hours for food and cloth </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(amend</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ing para xy of Rules and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Regulations of the North Indian </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Leper Beggar’s <place w:st="on">Union</place>, in force till </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">this very moment, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">saying that no </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">member should work more than 2 </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">hours </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">daily), </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">while full time work </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">should be provided by the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">manage</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ment for those who want to earn </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">an extra half rupee daily </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in addition. Until the acceptance of those </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">terms by the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">authorities, the Headman takes over "government" for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">one </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">month.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A few of the colony inmates leave for begging during </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">this year; of the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">remaining more and more take to full time </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">work, some becoming </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">now independent wage earners too. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Taking over of responsibilities by </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">more advanced workers, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">colony inmates and wage earners alike:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">1—Starting of Spinning workshop with handspinning </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">machines (Ambar charkas) by colony inmate Andreas </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bahadur.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">2—Ex-patient Salim Yohan Weaving Supervisor and- </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Instructor.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">3—Construction of second worker quarter on Klaus </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Becker’s land (left by testament to the workers), financed, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">by Oxfam, under supervision of ex-patient Divan Masih. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">4—K. Bangaraiah sent for half year paramedical training at</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Purulia, to take over independently the medical </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">department in April 1970. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Textile Orders from Convents, Hospitals, Schools, help us to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">reach an annual sales income of Rs. 25,000 for 1969, which </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">means 25% self support.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">1970</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">February</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Second arrival of Pierre Reyniers (Apri1 1971) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">After the jump in 69, the industrial activities are expanding with speed, crying for more working space.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">May</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Application to MISEREOR for Working-cum-storing Hall </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(turned down by beginning of 1971).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> The growing production has reached a level, where planned </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">marketing becomes necessary: Agnes Kunze "changing </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">her position" from Superintendent of Kripaon Ki Mata </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Colony, to Marketing manager of "Kripaon ki Mata Handloom</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">".</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pierre Reyniers as Production manager, and Weaving </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">supervisor Salim Yohan training more weavers. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Construction of 3 more looms.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">First Export order from <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Germany</place></country-region> for handspun curtains, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and Trial order from OXFAM-Activities for Cotton rug. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Self support now one third.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">1971 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">01.01.71 </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Purchase of "Kurukshetr" (from private donations), </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">land between the colony and the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Worker village, and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of another small plot in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the neighbourhood, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first individual </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rehabilitation experiment: New h</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">eadmason building there his own house and finding </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">occasionally work outside.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Former Driver (Colony inmate), having completed Auto </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">mechanic training, finds employment as bus driver. Another </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Worker starts his own carpentry shop in a village.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">February</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Arrival of David Mac Phail </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(—December 1971) from </span><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Australia</span></place></country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lead by him, beginning of “the long march” </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of constructing </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the necessary Working-cum- </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Storing Hall on our </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">own—then, from </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">August-September got aided by OXFAM and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">DAHW </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for about half of the estimated costs. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Grant for supply of electric line by City </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Board, Mussoorie. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Grant for electrification of the industrial area by CAA </span><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Australia</span></place></country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">May</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Registration of "K.K.M. HANDWEAVING Society" with </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ex-patients Salim Yohan and K. Bangaraiah on the Board </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of Management. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Subscription as member of Handloom Export Promotion C</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ouncil.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">August</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> First Export Bulk order from OXFAM Activities -</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rs. 29,000- for 1200 handspun Cotton rugs. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">First Contact with OXFAM Trading <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region></place>. (Trial </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">order)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the Textile production, accent now more on quality </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">instead of quantity, in spite of delivery dates. Experi</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ments in attractive weaving designs and Tye-dyeing. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Emerging of special styled typical KKM market </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">products, "not available otherwise". </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2/3 of the K.K.M. population, now “independent" </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">wage earners (though a number of them subsidised). </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Growing sense of individual independency, accent on </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">material progress. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Second arrival of Gina Hald, taking </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">over General </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Administration.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">1972</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> More Exports in the first half of the year </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(by Airfreight to </span><country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Germany</span></country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">France</place></country-region>)—meeting </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">grave difficulties at the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">other end of the line: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Import licences, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">June</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Beginning of Work in the new Hall. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">First Contact with </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">S.O.S. Netherlands (Sample order).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">July</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> First machine running on electric power (carding).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">August</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Third arrival of Pierre Reyniers, to start </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Production </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">unit </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in Brahmapuri Kusht Ashram, T</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ehri Garhwal, on 15.8.1972.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Directed by necessity, we may say, was our path, and certainly not by a blue-printed plan; the necessity to guide handicapped people to a more human, a more independent responsible life, by finding work for them and preparing them for accepting and actually doing it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Although others have tried too, there was no pattern which could have been applied, no pre-made road with the assurance of a signboard marked "Rehabilitation X 000 miles”. We still are breaking our way with more or less primitive instruments through jungle of restrictions and limitations, customs, traditions, prejudices, trends, illusions, weakness and ignorance.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The vision of the future was and is often still blocked with the worries of everyday life. We had neither plenty of money nor the gadgets of a technical civilization, nor the “human material” fit to build up an industry.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Most of our workers, coming from a peasant background, had been illiterate when they arrived, and some still are; some had been beggars for generations. Only one had a secondary education and one a family-tradition in weaving.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;">But contradiction keeps the wheel going in a dynamic process, turning disadvantages into advantages. The lack of former (mis-) education relieved us from the labour of re-education, while experience in various fields showed us that knowing comes from doing. Everyone, the managing people included, started with a primitive job, like digging or spinning cotton. Some are still finding their satisfaction in simple work, while others felt the need to learn and more, like a twenty year old, already trained in weaving, who became a semi-skilled construction worker during the building of the work hall, and is learning carpentry now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOgneIf6hNiygBnRE33RzXXO3FdPIDux9mVGrxKeC2Qs7nNzH_KkQi1fgndv6sgo657SV1_6LjklXqlOYXGGJ4R0Qjqq8Wht86D_yyaadutrzX_RX2JLg-0uvZU5LIIOWcK_wFXMVoiU/s1600/KK+71+Learning+by+doing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOgneIf6hNiygBnRE33RzXXO3FdPIDux9mVGrxKeC2Qs7nNzH_KkQi1fgndv6sgo657SV1_6LjklXqlOYXGGJ4R0Qjqq8Wht86D_yyaadutrzX_RX2JLg-0uvZU5LIIOWcK_wFXMVoiU/s320/KK+71+Learning+by+doing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Learning by doing</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Klaus Becker inventive spirit incited the first workers to make their own experiments and inventions; contacts with visitors and engaged volunteers from various countries helped to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">broaden the mind and to enlargen the horizon of many.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> "Do your own thinking" was our answer to many questions, for which no readymade answer was available. They heard this for the first time being used by tradition, and then in many cases through prolonged institution life, that the thinking is to be left to the elders and superiors, and the ruling to the officers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Transformation is not yet completed and still in the process. The Self management at which we aim is still a far way off, but not out of reach. Several more barriers will need to be broken, before the unity of knowing and doing can be achieved.</span><br />
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After the initial effort to learn to work and toil over cotton and wool yarns spinning and weaving, they were missing the condescension gaze of the road passers-by…</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border: currentColor;"> Sales were not bright; weather was cruel to us without basic amenities, and also discontent from higher quarters made themselves felt, when we really meant going off the beaten track: Leprosy patients charitable work being feeding and clothing and praise the Almighty, while being occupied, to prevent mischief mongering among the inmates.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border: currentColor;"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtSExsqRsLki_yyvnpE1LYiWr6HGD5TVCEhWYQ0lKylEX78ujTdvJ25bb7AGjyxnWyQi71suBAO7zPiYWWmCp1IQwb6TxSPJV_wims_XtZZ_XqV-V2ptFz8uBhQVErdE9AVpshVJlOFTk/s1600/NP+69+First+Banana+cultiv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtSExsqRsLki_yyvnpE1LYiWr6HGD5TVCEhWYQ0lKylEX78ujTdvJ25bb7AGjyxnWyQi71suBAO7zPiYWWmCp1IQwb6TxSPJV_wims_XtZZ_XqV-V2ptFz8uBhQVErdE9AVpshVJlOFTk/s320/NP+69+First+Banana+cultiv.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border: currentColor;"> The time (70’s) were calling for more; and in spite of reluctance or downright opposition from the local authorities and society at large, we meant to try and make way for each and everyone’s latent talents suppressed by centuries of rejection, despise and fear.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border: currentColor;"> “ What good can come out of a Leprosy Colony?” </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border: currentColor;"> If Agnes’ Inner circle friends were trusting her to the hilt, it was not the case of other institutionalized funding agencies. So, when, torn in doubts, Oxfam (England) appeared out of the blue, first as a self-help granting Organization (6 more looms, minor irrigation system, cow-shed material costs) we felt at last understood and supported with simple cost effective help.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"> The Trade-Branch of Oxfam: “Oxfam Activities”, went as far as promising to buy from our production a thousand of Durries (mats) per year, once we are formally independently Registered, and have obtained a Textile Export License, </div><div class="MsoNormal"> On such an assurance of course we flew on.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizOzOjYZj7vIKGEDgfPDyfVHDK7D1X3Qo0AcU_dtdsIM6AVGcTeq3HbIqEO0zAr-V2egUXMTHCHZ2BF7HaDrK7kH1GJNhtx4Ch7_NGKeSf9cJh_9Ipv3g-oIZXmsXSmM75lgh1AR3Nfm4/s1600/NP+71+Divan+First+Pillar.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizOzOjYZj7vIKGEDgfPDyfVHDK7D1X3Qo0AcU_dtdsIM6AVGcTeq3HbIqEO0zAr-V2egUXMTHCHZ2BF7HaDrK7kH1GJNhtx4Ch7_NGKeSf9cJh_9Ipv3g-oIZXmsXSmM75lgh1AR3Nfm4/s320/NP+71+Divan+First+Pillar.JPG" width="214" /></a> But this semi autonomous self help gainful activities and plans were not to the taste of established Institutions, who tried to hinder our efforts seeking a normal place in society.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIRjIgMZ5lUUWvUF9_uDo_RGESygCyxJv1xJpBf03hCtPZ_oNiaqnyHsNp4OwY9jsWnLEUh9As8jJLqXop3bQf1wCPq2Jzf_asd3Gi7a3IciFNn9TzpdTGUTsQDrLaDoQm4xQHm-6gdOY/s1600/NP+71+New+hall+construction.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIRjIgMZ5lUUWvUF9_uDo_RGESygCyxJv1xJpBf03hCtPZ_oNiaqnyHsNp4OwY9jsWnLEUh9As8jJLqXop3bQf1wCPq2Jzf_asd3Gi7a3IciFNn9TzpdTGUTsQDrLaDoQm4xQHm-6gdOY/s320/NP+71+New+hall+construction.jpg" width="216" /></a> <br />
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Particularly, in the matter of building a second necessary workshop, whose financing was first promised and then cancelled; thus, we were let down by yes-men organizations, and then, once more, Oxfam came to our rescue, stepping in to help and propose to finance the Workshop.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Patronization of our Society to be founded was spurned, and the piece of land we meant to acquire - and thus have a Legal Independent address -, to be bought quite cheaply by Agnes’ Circle friends’ funds for KKM Handweaving Society got vetoed; a few influential friends tried to explain Agnes’ stand, but to no avail.<br />
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MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor; text-align: center;">OF THE<br />
“K. K. M. HANDWEAVING SOCIETY<br />
II, NALAPANI ROAD, DEHRA DUN (U.P)<br />
(Registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
<strong>PREAMBLE:</strong></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">A non-registered charitable Institution, called "Kripaon ki Mata Leprosy Colony", has been in existence since the year 1962 under the direction of the Catholic Diocese of Meerut (U.P.) and supported by the German Leprosy Relief. Association (DAHW), which gave grants for the land and the buildings, for Medical treatment and maintenance of the inmates, with the Special intention to make them in due course, as far as possible, self-supporting.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">Development Aid, ear-marked for setting up a Training Centre for Leprosy patients and ex-patients, was given directly to the Superintendent of the Colony, Miss Agnes Kunze, by OXFAM, England, and private groups and persons in India and abroad.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">Volunteer-helpers to work for the relief and rehabilitation of the inmates of the Colony have come both from European countries and from India. From the beginning it has been a prime motive with these workers that the Leprosy patients and ex-patients should be made economically self supporting to the extent possible, by providing work and wages.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">Developing and progressing during the course of the years, a successful Handweaving and Spinning Department has been set up with a dozen looms and fifty spinning wheels and other accessories, as a Training-cum-Production Centre, and the products are marketted both in India and abroad. This has enabled the Colony inmates, both men and women, to earn part of their livelihood, and thus to become earning and respected members of Society.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">Since the Handweaving and related occupations need special development and funds, and have to be managed on sound financial basis and principles of business management, it has been proposed to register this department—with the DAHW (German Leprosy Relief Association) as a corporate institutional member—as a separate non-profit Association under the Indian Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, as for the following Constitution, Memorandum and Rules of Association.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">1. Name: The name of the Association shall be "K.K.M. HANDWEAVING", hereinafter also called "the Society", and it shall be a non-profit organisation, registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act XXI of I860.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">2. Location: The registered office of the Society shall be situated at No. 11, Nalapani Road, Dehra Dun (U.P.). It shall be open to the Board of Management of the Society to shift the registered office to any other place.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">3. Aims and Objects: The Aims and Objects of the Society shall be:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">(a) To rehabilitate leprosy patients and ex-patients, and whenever possible the members of their families, by providing them with suitable opportunities for training and development and employ¬ment on need-based wages, in handweaving, spinning and other occupations, thus to enable them to become economically self-supporting and socially self-respecting, and for this purpose to under¬take the purchase of equipment and raw materials and the manufacture and sale of goods.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">(b) To promote the interests and protect the rights and privileges of leprosy patients and ex-patients, who are members of the Society, and to bring about unity and mutual helpfulness among themselves and with members of similar societies as well as to make necessary presentations on their behalf to Governmental and Municipal Authorities and other interested agencies and individuals.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">(c) To take such measures as are necessary and possible for providing medical aid, maintenance, and financial aid to any member in distress or adversity, as also to the members of his family on his death.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">(d) To work in co-operation and collaboration with other societies, institutions and organisations, both national and international, having similar objects, and to participate in and also to organise conferences, seminars, research studies, etc. in the pursuit of the above aims and objects.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">(e) To publish books, pamphlets and journals, and produce posters, slides and films dealing with the welfare, treatment and rehabilitation of leprosy patients and ex-patients.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">(f) To acquire, receive and hold property of any kind, including securities and negotiable instruments, and also to possess and maintain lands, buildings and equipment for and on behalf of the Society, and to create a Trust or Trusts for the same.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">(g) To establish branches and centres of activity of the Society at other places in India and abroad, to promote the objects of the Society and entrust these branches and centres with functions and constitutions as may be decided by the Board of management.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">(h) To do all such things and to perform all such acts as are incidental and conducive to the furtherance of any or all the objects of the Society.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">SCHEDULE I : FOUNDER MEMBERS</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">We, the several persons whose names and addresses are given below, have associated ourselves for the objects and purposes described in this Memorandum of Association, and we do hereby subscribe our names to this Memorandum and set our hands hereunto and form ourselves into a Society under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, on this day of 29th April, 1971 at Dehra Dun (U.P)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">No. Name, Address and Occupation Designation Signature</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">1. Mr. Fred De Mello Chairman<br />
74, Restcamp, Dehradun<br />
Rtd. Administrator of MacLaren<br />
Leprosy Hospital, Dehradun</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">2. Major T. Ramchandra Vice- Chairman<br />
9 A T.C. Bldg., Connaught Circus<br />
New Delhi-I<br />
Gen. Secretary B.S.S</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">3. Shri. Pierre Reyniers Second Vice- Chairman<br />
11, Nalapani Road,<br />
Dehradun. Social Worker</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">4. Miss Agnes Kunze General Secretary-<br />
11, Nalapani Road, Treasurer<br />
Dehradun. Social Worker</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">5. Ustad Salim Yohan Joint Secretary<br />
11, Nalapani Road,<br />
Dehradun. Weaving Instructor</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">6. Shri Kosuru Bangaraiah Joint Secretary<br />
11, Nalapani Road,<br />
Dehradun. Paramedical Worker</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentColor;">7. Mr. David MacPhail Member<br />
11, Nalapani Road,<br />
Dehradun. Social Worker</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The Kripaon ki Mata colony admitted .<br />
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All these young, uneducated (except Bangaraiah), were put to the coming<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>challenge, willingly, under Agnes credo, she wrote as Preface to the later booklet “Experiment & Experience”, which is reproduced below. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For us, her ward, it meant coming first to terms with our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>obvious handicaps, nasty bacilli for most, inexperience for me.</div><br />
The motto was : “do your daily concrete work properly” in a spirit of humility and service to each other.<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Community work, like a cow maintainance scheme, offered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(housing and selected mother and calf)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was not very well accepted, since it is an old-age habit in begging colonies<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to subsist with individual care of private hens and goats rearing, while <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Pierre</st1:city></st1:place> was aflame after his kibbutz experience and the May 68 movement.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Agnes and he ordered more mobilization under the slogan “no thread, no cloth”, there was quite an opposition Agnes was ripe to deal with, but not me.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">Thus, I left her with the problem, to <v:shape id="_x0000_s1029" o:allowoverlap="f" style="height: 172.55pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-top: 25.2pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-vertical-relative: line; position: absolute; width: 252pt; z-index: 4;" type="#_x0000_t75"><v:imagedata o:title="" src="file:///C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image007.jpg"><w:wrap type="square"> </w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape>take some rest and make a tour of South-India.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 12;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 12;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 12;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 12;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 10;"> </span>So once more Agnes picked up the broken pieces and made the Community whole, using the art of compromise, with the help of the “new” workers, and a couple of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>medium-term volunteers.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By early 1970, a chastened <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pierre</st1:place></st1:city> was back into the fold, and resumed workshop direction with more cooperative workers, while some repairs and improvements were carried off, namely tne workshop west verandah and the replacement of the first Agnes-building roof from metal to asbestos.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By January ’71, I felt like expressing in writing the past and present challenges,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after abandoning with Agnes a rough project to try and start reviving textile oriented work at Brahmapuri, after my Indian tutor took us there, and has us meet Swami Chidandaji, Head of Shivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, concerned with the plight of the leprosy patients he was instrumental to have them shifted from town to that beautiful location upstream of Mother Ganga, but hardly visited and fed the basic food.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our unconditional Agnes <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Friends Circle</st1:address></st1:street> would have back us, but finally we felt the situation in Dehra-dun was not ripe enough to engage our tryst with an other similar challenge (not so similar as we experienced 2 years later).<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;" unselectable="on"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My text of early 71 is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>quoted below; while the Agnes’ provisional summing up of 1972, after KKM Handweaving Society legal Registration on 31.5.71 birth pangs will be</div>the subject matter of the next episode.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">AUX AMIS PRESENTS ET FUTURS<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><br />
<u><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Un bref apercu historique.<o:p></o:p></span></u><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Fondé en 1962, Kripaon Ki Mata devait être un “ Home” pour lépreux, récupérés, mendiants dans les rues de Meerut, Chef lieu du Diocese. Une assistante sociale Allemande, Miss Agnès Kunze, se trouvant disponible, I’évêque de Meerut lui confia le soin des 30 lépreux de sa ville sur ce qui devait<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>être une annexe au cimetière avoisinant: I ha de terrain érodé situé sur la pente, menant au lit d’une rivière usuellement à sec.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Après avoir obtenu l’aide du D.A.H.W. (Fondation Allemande pour l’aide aux lépreux,) construit la première baraque, et s’être installée dans un contact permanent avec les lépreux et leurs problèmes, Agnès commence à prévoir une occupation moins déprimante et plus digne que d’attendre, au soleil (ou à l’ombre suivant la saison), les “chappatis” tomber toutes cuites dans la bouche, sans même avoir a faire l’effort de les mendier au bord de la route poussiéreuse et brûlante.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Un technicien allemand, voulant passer quelques années de sa vie à aider concrètement les lépreux, arrive, fin 63, et trouve un petit bâtiment atelier, offert encore par la D.A.H.W. et se met au travail. Il cherche, étant donné l’insensibilité et les mutilations des extrémités des membres des lépreux, leurs capacités mentales et des considérations de bonne marche, la meilleure entreprise à déployer à grande échelle. Il expérimente successivement la fabrication de: Bougies, rubans tressés, articles tricotés à la machine: Filature à la Gandhi; Agriculture, Elevage de poulets. Finalement, ce sont les essais de filature et tissage qui s’avèrent les plus concluants. 3 métiers a tisser sont installés dans le petit atelier avec des fileuses: La machine est lancée……..</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Il dessine et construit lui-même un deuxième atelier plus grand, qui est juste terminé quand j’arrive en Sept. 67 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Les métiers à tisser et autres accessoires sont alors construits rapidement pour combler l’espace vide, et surtout pour pouvoir donner du travail aux lépreux blanchis, mais rejetés par la famille et la société qui cherchent désespérément du travail, mais qui se voient contraints de faire une carrière de mendiant. </span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Les anciens du début étant assez réticents pour travailler, la main d’oeuvre est surtout fournie par les nouveaux</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><u>La question centrale</u> : </span></b><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Elle est humaine, bien sûr.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> C’est la réhabilitation des lépreux blanchis, Réhabilitation dans le sens de ré-intégration dans leurs vies propres, dans la cité ensuite. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Notre initiative, étant très isolée, il ne peut pas être question de Réhabilitation dans la vie normale pour le moment, parce que cela suppose une éducation très longue des citoyens d’une part; et l’élimination chez les lépreux guéris de toute une foule de rancoeurs et complexes ; cela est notre terrain. Les psychoses individuelles – y compris les nôtres – demandent trop de temps (nous ne sommes que deux) pour être suivies et aidées efficacement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Les activités deviennent alors un moyen plus adéquat pour une Réhabilitation globale d’abord et individuelle ensuite grâce à la dignité du travail, le sens des responsabilités et la fierté de produire quelque chose de concret et d’utile.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> L’exemple des travailleurs “nouveaux” porta d’ailleurs des fruits puisque les “anciens mendiants” ne se sentent plus à l’aise sans travail et s’y mettent peu à peu.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Les problèmes actuels.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> “Produire, c’est bien; vendre c’est mieux”. Tel est notre souci actuel. Nous avons déjà préparé 2 expositions, mais le résultat a été de bien courte durée. Quelques 1000 tracts publicitaires ont été envoyés, n’appelant que quelques réponses.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Grâce à nos amis Allemands et Anglais, l’année 1970 s’est bien terminée, mais des commandes sûres, espacées dans le temps seraient les bienvenues.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Avec les 60 travailleurs d’à présent, les deux ateliers ne suffisent plus pour les héberger avec leurs machines et tout le stock des matériaux et des tissus.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> La charpente métallique et toît du nouvel atelier sont là et nous commençons juste à l’ériger, mais pour les murs etc… il nous faudra attendre une aide auxiliaire…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Au programme immédiat est aussi l’aménagement intérieur pour l’électrification industrielle des ateliers et la mise en place d’un moteur faisant tourner une cardeuse à cotton et une machine à “twister” déjà en notre possession et, éventuellement, d’autres machines dans le futur.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> De tout cela, et de bien d’autres choses encore, dépend l’avenir des 80 lépreux blanchis d’à présent, qui doivent gagner leur pain, tout handicapés qu’ils sont.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Sur le plan médical, la situation globale n’est pas aussi sérieuse. La plupart des lépreux sont blanchis et ne requièrent que des soins de routine et des pilules de dapsone prévenant tout récurrence de la maladie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Ceci n’est qu’un petit tour d’horizon incomplet. J’espère cependant qu’il suffira à éveiller l’intérêt et à créer des liens à renforcer par un dialogue à établir.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> </span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"> Janvier 71, Pierre Reyniers.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">EXPERIMENT AND EXPERIENCE</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>FROM BEGGAR TO WORKER – A HISTORY OF TRANSFORMATION<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 12;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 12;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 12;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 12;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u> </u></span> </span></div><span style="color: black;"> <strong><u>Preface</u></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: right;">Ms Agnes Kunze, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">General Secretary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KKM Handweaving </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Booklet 1972</span></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: right;"></div></div> After having been working during 10 years in a Leprosy Colony, known to not many people, we feel we have to inform a wider about our experiments in transforming a place, where work was a foreign word, into an industrial centre.<br />
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We don’t intend to call this undertaking a “model”, as some people did, because we are aware that other situations call for different solutions of the problem. Still, a few of our experiences may be useful to other workers in the field of Rehabilitation, some seeds from our unexpected fruits may fall into ready soil, to bring fruit there too, in patience, for those who should not be deprived of them.<br />
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Our present time, certainly, calls for a change of attitude: “The leper” should not be seen anymore as a mythical figure, nor should the Leprosy patient be treated as a mere object of medical science only. He is a man like you and I. Not this shadow is polluting the atmosphere, only our fear, which shall be dispelled when we go to meet him in a natural and practical human approach.<br />
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There are several who have done so. Quite a few during these 10 years of our existence came here to give their service, their time, their work, their friendship, their heart. Some left disappointed that they could do so little, but all of them we can assure, that nothing of what they did was lost.<br />
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<v:shape id="_x0000_s1027" o:allowoverlap="f" style="height: 198pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; mso-position-horizontal: left; mso-position-vertical-relative: line; mso-position-vertical: top; position: absolute; width: 136.55pt; z-index: 2;" type="#_x0000_t75"><v:imagedata o:title="" src="file:///C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.jpg"><w:wrap type="square"> </w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape></div>KKM Handweavinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605039897316982597noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185285282203980129.post-34621128393223633702011-07-06T06:06:00.000-07:002011-07-06T06:06:40.069-07:00Hands at work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvjaEZTqfYbqaFDAedi90myFONonHgZQq2uoTXtIuvQQc00TmNIQm-Qf6SUD_Mmn4VKZYhczzFN_r7drEDu8T5Z7ujyhyQZFVvjqMSq50i83NxqRnToHdqC6JTQZ6S8wl4K1A-cdm7Gg0/s1600/NP+67+Divan+%2526+Pierre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvjaEZTqfYbqaFDAedi90myFONonHgZQq2uoTXtIuvQQc00TmNIQm-Qf6SUD_Mmn4VKZYhczzFN_r7drEDu8T5Z7ujyhyQZFVvjqMSq50i83NxqRnToHdqC6JTQZ6S8wl4K1A-cdm7Gg0/s1600/NP+67+Divan+%2526+Pierre.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From 1966, Klaus’ genius was obvious everywhere : While setting the pace for spinning and weaving with the help of Salim, finding out many different sources of raw materials, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and in the same go he applied his own designs with his recruits’ own labour <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for latrines and first quarters made out of hand-made bricks, he embarked into micro- and macro- architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVvT85YXPEIS3Rj8KKcf0Y7jjS3on67HR6y6l-VHcDLvOHS3-Vn9mFUQEbQz0RqXlXn7jZB4CqYXOUKCs9_NZlkYysQ5T9dLvb2amDkXKZEg8opnFH1xTYaRC4_gv8YNBAA59vxy7WWo/s1600/NP+65+First+cloth+weaving.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVvT85YXPEIS3Rj8KKcf0Y7jjS3on67HR6y6l-VHcDLvOHS3-Vn9mFUQEbQz0RqXlXn7jZB4CqYXOUKCs9_NZlkYysQ5T9dLvb2amDkXKZEg8opnFH1xTYaRC4_gv8YNBAA59vxy7WWo/s320/NP+65+First+cloth+weaving.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The micro –bordering on alchemy, was re-inventing basic and intricate weaving pattern techniques along with the tools needed for them : out of string, wood, iron, nails he conceived sharpening machine-tools, foot-or hand-powered; rediscovering the Jacquard technique, he created his butterfly pattern, and made the nails and card own contraption perform the desired effect on a sari border, whom the latest choice recruit, K.Bangaraiah wove as an introduction to his long unrelenting artistic carrière, passing through many other avatars in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEifrV-h31Lr1bKvuLpMkGdzyxsg37GMVk6eVsVnY_wY8JR77PfuAPbA1WINtktMXx214lALrQ8QUOhxKnBMYnf6aNIRRS6fFZ27ZPa3-Vs040FvmHAmrXbkd_nw9P8fGZKuEH6T3cdU/s1600/NP+65+First+mats.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEifrV-h31Lr1bKvuLpMkGdzyxsg37GMVk6eVsVnY_wY8JR77PfuAPbA1WINtktMXx214lALrQ8QUOhxKnBMYnf6aNIRRS6fFZ27ZPa3-Vs040FvmHAmrXbkd_nw9P8fGZKuEH6T3cdU/s320/NP+65+First+mats.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The macro job was to conceive and build a proper large workshop with spinning, dyeing, weaving, designing and managerial provisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For that, he spent days and weeks choosing the best suitable sturdy materials, planned the foundations and structure for whom all valid patients were put to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Himself did the setting up, masonry and plastering work and by the time an interim unexpected volunteer, Pierre Reyniers came as a substitute to the elusive expected German one, and joined the wagon (September 1967), the building was practically finished but for finishing touches on the residential cum administerial room Klaus planned for himself or his successor on top of the workshop.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIL7hQrwcB5vCvkcp19XRasInc4Sli-8SvjeXRfCu4n1mfXloh_FcAt1Kx60o3Zl2u8EAyOO4uEs_IJF98QulQ9eDM-pNkyE8gi7ZzGeZZFKDhzEbQf6BohAOiZDYjhXhZZYk6qMDuchs/s1600/NP67+New+Large+workshop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIL7hQrwcB5vCvkcp19XRasInc4Sli-8SvjeXRfCu4n1mfXloh_FcAt1Kx60o3Zl2u8EAyOO4uEs_IJF98QulQ9eDM-pNkyE8gi7ZzGeZZFKDhzEbQf6BohAOiZDYjhXhZZYk6qMDuchs/s320/NP67+New+Large+workshop.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Good for <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pierre</st1:place></st1:city> that Klaus spent his remaining couple of months showing him the basic textile technique, introduced him to suppliers of spinning and weaving implements as well as furnishers of raw cotton and wool.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4LO4bdBqFTSEA8kz7pqEku3ObOtAgeT-0M1AiLiB3FA1B4MpSXu2-_uLSEAkjGQyYRhjaDI-k4IJQCOGLY6TV-Qv3nRJUTd3lgb1i0IWxloEJPHxGbpiunobp_PzlBRoXeSpUqSv-Ils/s1600/NP+66+Amjad+Klaus+warping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4LO4bdBqFTSEA8kz7pqEku3ObOtAgeT-0M1AiLiB3FA1B4MpSXu2-_uLSEAkjGQyYRhjaDI-k4IJQCOGLY6TV-Qv3nRJUTd3lgb1i0IWxloEJPHxGbpiunobp_PzlBRoXeSpUqSv-Ils/s320/NP+66+Amjad+Klaus+warping.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without any experience in this art to discover ex nihilo, my Hindi inexistent, I relied heavily on Agnes to begin to understand the picture, oriental mentality, and the chasm with “normal” society <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>imposed on “lepers” -en block- till Klaus left by Christmas time.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same moment, an illiterate but promising young Nepali man got admitted, to become Workshop Manager after years of treatment, schooling and close guidance by Agnes and Pierre.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 1968 period was spent with much difficulty for all 90 of us but with some relief coming through Ms Gina Hald, whom Agnes trained into people’s nursing rather than animals', her official profession.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jehD0J2zB9N04rw-kHRB8AnxTgAQxwEYbnS3uYcV9QYNJVUx5T4AHUs8mSWtTWWNS4oip6C5UUi4CfphKyXHK-UWjW4iHOAsR6lVVYUCNl8kwAuDo9upNq6uvMqIxINHz1Ljop1FLAk/s1600/NP+71+Agnes%252CPierre%2526Panditji.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jehD0J2zB9N04rw-kHRB8AnxTgAQxwEYbnS3uYcV9QYNJVUx5T4AHUs8mSWtTWWNS4oip6C5UUi4CfphKyXHK-UWjW4iHOAsR6lVVYUCNl8kwAuDo9upNq6uvMqIxINHz1Ljop1FLAk/s320/NP+71+Agnes%252CPierre%2526Panditji.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div>KKM Handweavinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605039897316982597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185285282203980129.post-70897532412050124502011-05-11T20:41:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:47:43.709-07:00The KKM Leprosy Colony first steps<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas> <v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"> <o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"> </o:lock></v:path></v:stroke></v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 207pt; margin-left: 1.55pt; margin-top: 9pt; position: absolute; width: 141.95pt; z-index: 1;" type="#_x0000_t75"></v:shape></div><v:imagedata o:title="NP 62 Parman Singh" src="file:///C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.jpg"> <w:wrap type="square"> </w:wrap></v:imagedata><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Meantime, Agnes herself saw to their treatment for leprosy and other diseases under Dr U.C. Chandna who accepted to come once a week and direct medications. <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> The letters for help sent to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> bore results, with a grant from the German Leprosy Relief Association, and, more important for the future,with the arrival of Klaus Becker, an already all rounded seasoned volunteer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04-gA9DLjL7cRV9Gyvkqch6KY19yZIsr_6X637mwDtbsJqs7qV1NwZmkgEhGMBpyRAFK2OJAYWnbE1HxYXg54mj0u2Gs7YJpiuLnX7VEyW8xpj6ykxk3XwfWNgoNbUp7hU60kvozDGt4/s1600/NP+62+early+days.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04-gA9DLjL7cRV9Gyvkqch6KY19yZIsr_6X637mwDtbsJqs7qV1NwZmkgEhGMBpyRAFK2OJAYWnbE1HxYXg54mj0u2Gs7YJpiuLnX7VEyW8xpj6ykxk3XwfWNgoNbUp7hU60kvozDGt4/s320/NP+62+early+days.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Technically a Master, with a solid education in Humanities and fast Language learner, he became naturally “Masterji”.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><v:shape id="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 169.2pt; margin-left: -108pt; margin-top: 47.45pt; position: absolute; width: 261pt; z-index: 2;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="NP 62 early days" src="file:///C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.jpg"> <w:wrap type="square"> </w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>United in effort with Agnes to find a productive and creative work for all kinds of disabililities, his experiments in Wax and Soap moulding met quickly with flaws, be it unsafe for anaesthetic hands, poor possibility in line-development and…marketing issue.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Textile work –on the model of Gandhian successful home-industry, Klaus Becker hit the bull's eye : work possibility for all kinds of disability; indian designs and low-cost techniques, requiring no other energy than good-will; raw material supplies at hand or nearby.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx8TMO3YYPKb4Mwizn9E09z5N783UR3v_AeS_zvMoLQjIdHTRIfRZ9rPqG7o4JlZLWjgb8hJ31fkJYhEJfnLceVOqj9zNLwU70zJH6ZWWNalbBpxXci_MXipG9ZuGmcjgdusiBsXokLp4/s1600/NP+64+Klaus+and+Mostan+Nivar+loom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx8TMO3YYPKb4Mwizn9E09z5N783UR3v_AeS_zvMoLQjIdHTRIfRZ9rPqG7o4JlZLWjgb8hJ31fkJYhEJfnLceVOqj9zNLwU70zJH6ZWWNalbBpxXci_MXipG9ZuGmcjgdusiBsXokLp4/s320/NP+64+Klaus+and+Mostan+Nivar+loom.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><v:shape id="_x0000_s1028" style="height: 177.05pt; margin-left: 99pt; margin-top: 22.25pt; position: absolute; width: 243pt; z-index: 3;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="NP 64 Klaus and Mostan Nivar loom" src="file:///C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image005.jpg"> <w:wrap type="square"> </w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his Masterly way, he created several looms and ancillary machines out of his own hands, even tooling machines hand- or foot-powered, witness to his genius. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However a shock was awaiting him: when the minimum spinning-weaving implements became ready for the Kripaon ki Mata Leprosy Colony members, (whose number had doubled, newcomers, ex-beggars- having had the Church permission to join the Colony) to use them, Agnes and Klaus met with total reluctance: “The Diocese has offered to look after us, not to make us work”!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had their point : Changing overnight from an exorted cash-economy to a new status of fully assisted, but minus their freedom of begging and its incidentals.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Appeals to the Diocese confirmed that the patients were there to witness the glory of God through its Church, and as “work” : thanksgiving prayer was the only duty expected from them.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other volunteers would have given up. But not such tempered <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spirits as Agnes’ or Klaus’!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On their own, they started to admit fresh leprosy patients, from leprosy hospitals, or, better straight from their original villages, when begging was not a way of life, and who meant to work.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-pC6uglf-cb_eSuCGBvaAg_oYishoI2U751Zd2a_vi33RjkNGNC87E8INOT0QqZBenKjY13gIjopEW6osEO9D1iG5biWHmeK3KBQbmBXywJkDLmH7DtB_nD8KHGtJuocFoWDj3HzQIXE/s1600/NP+65+Salim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-pC6uglf-cb_eSuCGBvaAg_oYishoI2U751Zd2a_vi33RjkNGNC87E8INOT0QqZBenKjY13gIjopEW6osEO9D1iG5biWHmeK3KBQbmBXywJkDLmH7DtB_nD8KHGtJuocFoWDj3HzQIXE/s320/NP+65+Salim.jpg" width="224" /></a><v:shape id="_x0000_s1029" style="height: 4in; margin-left: -27pt; margin-top: 15.6pt; position: absolute; width: 202.2pt; z-index: 4;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="NP 65 Salim" src="file:///C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image007.jpg"> <w:wrap type="square"> </w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Church not being happy to see its plans not implemented, Klaus Becker bought an acre of land nearby and made fresh patients make themselves their own bricks, dig foundations, make lime-mortar and build their eight rooms covered with asbestos sheets, while paying them a daily minimum wage (medical and clothing needs guaranted, provided they make they own clothing on KKM Colony’s looms.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this new avenue, and the arrival of young unprepossessing Salim, from a weaver family near Benares, spinning teacher at first, but turning out to be a master-weaver, who taught all of us after Klaus Becker’s departure and is to-day one of the First Founder Member of KKM Handweaving Society.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But over half an eventful decade had to be gone through before this land-mark could see the light and could be inked down.</div></div>KKM Handweavinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605039897316982597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185285282203980129.post-33946739308881886602011-03-14T23:14:00.001-07:002011-03-23T03:48:10.507-07:00Onto the Starting-block<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">After reaching Bombay, Agnes Kunze got on the way to Meerut, where a group of beggar-to-be leprosy patients were waiting for Arch-Bishop Evangelisti, OFM, to provide a home for the relief of their illness and lives, at Dehra-Dun, on the land being procured to enlarge the Catholic cemetery there.</span> <div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_JbhuBo4W5yE8oz4pcZ8YmpdSkyExdyXc2gkD6yh2bEqs8OvNXPvCL5_lFwbss33eaL_BiTzRfkCNuN3XxFJN5CJV7C-8GMpIdtxO7ID_kKBJDdVSSyDrbLYzdWr6rFiahG-WHXYpV1E/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; 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cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 232px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 187px;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk0DWo5KDrfuPT0EyF7Es2024JRwi1Vq_gwYLa5i36r66TjLqxN-oNnAnxMV2zD0OxXj2QS1rlIHTXIKHTlLcbcujmboGfWva1KXIpZ3Y9kURgolQGVKvUq7gOuYPBh0V3UUM16qmdQA0/s1600/2.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> From there Agnes went to Meerut -Diocese Headquarters- through Delhi where she met a number of socially engaged priests and people like </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Fr Tong, SJ.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Arch Bishop Evangelisti had not the Colony-to-be ready ready to occupy, so Agnes was asked to familiarize herself with Diocese work, by helping here and there, particularly at </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Sardhana*, crib of local Catholic Faith, dedicated to “Our Lady of Graces” (Kripaon ki Mata, in Hindi), at pilgrimage time; then in an other suburb of Dehra-Dun, to help care at a Catholic Orphan children Home.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> At last, in the summer heat, the 3 acres land on the slope to the dry river-bed was ready for settling, and the inmates to-be had to make their huts, the Parish priest, Fr Gilbert, OFM, doing his best to supply some drinking water, bandage and food.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Agnes moved to the presbytery, and started to come by bicycle, morning to evening, to give the comfort of her presence, do a minimum of nursing, assess the immense needs and start contacting her old and new friends by letter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> While waiting for response from The German Leprosy Association, she took some time to study Hindi and Sanskrit at the Language School uphill (Mussoorie), where she could meet other interesting and useful new contacts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> With the first Monsoon rains, the “Kripaon ki Mata Leprosy Colony” was finally inaugurated.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; 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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">With post-war <country-region w:st="on">Germany</country-region> - and particularly <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Munich</place></city> - in shambles, Agnes Kunze joined hands with Catholic Church workers to mitigate the material and human woes of the refugees-like people of the area.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Organized relief work like Caritas left her dissatisfied because of the institutional rules it was functioning with, and she rather joined with the unconventional workers, like Rev. Fr Schachtner.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not being a nun or a consecrated lay church member, she found more congenial to work at the root (already!) of the problems.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipt7mVRFxhY_ngzP2eCRULx25Jt112lm-G4ENxzN2qjcJwoeHdMYs2x_iWGQrwBgyDIBh2-x22f_3o6lhiqTjjFWnnkkqpAMeI-orB8fP0D6tHzftrrE1QPeMRIh7ipY9G3UAaIwTl0cI/s1600/1960+Agnes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipt7mVRFxhY_ngzP2eCRULx25Jt112lm-G4ENxzN2qjcJwoeHdMYs2x_iWGQrwBgyDIBh2-x22f_3o6lhiqTjjFWnnkkqpAMeI-orB8fP0D6tHzftrrE1QPeMRIh7ipY9G3UAaIwTl0cI/s320/1960+Agnes.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore she engaged herself as maid –au pair – with American occupant officers’ family, in view to earn her living, but foremost to be at “war-widows” level in their physical, human and moral predicaments which they could unload to an understanding alter-ego companion, at night, in their servants rooms under the roof.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A decade or so passed in this way, but Agnes was on the look out to go and help leprosy afflicted people –preferably in <place w:st="on">Africa</place> -, on the tracks of Emmanuel, Francis, or possibly of Albert Schweitzer who started to become known in the 50’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><shape id="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 178.8pt; margin-left: 282pt; margin-top: 3.6pt; position: absolute; width: 142.2pt; z-index: 1;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="1960 Agnes" src="file:///C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="square"></wrap></shape><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put in touch with a visiting Mission catholic Father, she got recommended to the Archbishop of Meerut, <place w:st="on">North India</place>, who had just having plans to settle thirty leprosy-afflicted beggars.</div></div></div>KKM Handweavinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605039897316982597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185285282203980129.post-6220411856889310032011-02-23T21:29:00.000-08:002012-01-16T02:25:46.954-08:00Agnes Kunze and KKM Handweaving Society<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">PREAMBLE<shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="" id="Image1_img" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" style="height: 483.6pt; width: 450pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKM2mAUJuR7g_JGazc4PA_6CC_N0ZrXY3PSrlx1w0sca5QxVcHHcb6oMYotNHYfTvb_SFezG-aFWg4s453qwp85gwFzqzq2nLxuUU-vitOEKy_2lBrm4x8uiPNk5fs5EG7ywvLHxVPR0M/s748/NP+62+Agnes+Kunze.JPG" src="file:///C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata></shape></span></div><br />
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<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="2907675542976582511"></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 26pt;"><a href="http://kkmhandweavingsociety.blogspot.com/2011/02/agnes-kunze-pre-kkm.html"><span style="color: #cc3300;">Agnes Kunze pre-KKM</span></a> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 26pt;">Agnes Kunze, of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Munich</place></city>, born in 1923, had a strict but open familial education, along beside attending School Humanities in regular school.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 26pt;">Before the 2nd world war she managed to escape Hitler Youth embrigadement, leading other teenagers in this kind of non-cooperation.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 26pt;">During the war itself, Agnes Kunze managed to stay aloof from the prevailing frenzy and inhuman laws which she was instrumental in deflecting them in favour of targeted groups and individuals</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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