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Founders

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Listen to her story on Seneca's Made By Women podcast.

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Locations

Bend, Oregon United States

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Mission

SEWN WITH HOPE AND LOVE

We’ll admit, the first few pairs of Punjammies® were, well — let’s just say that they were sewn together with a lot of love. We learned a lot and changed a lot. Our focus and goal, however, remains the same: empower women to live in freedom from sex-slavery through safe, sustainable living-wage employment. Every pair of Punjammies®, robes and slouch pants are made proudly in India. And every style is named in honor and celebration of a woman at one of the centers. You can read a few of their stories here. Every day, stitch by stitch, women are gaining confidence not only in themselves but also in their newfound hope and freedom.

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About

In 2006, we partnered with a sewing center in India and taught six women how to sew a pattern for loungewear pants. The previous year, our founder, Shannon Keith, had returned from a trip to India and heard story after story of women who were sold into sex slavery. She also heard stories of women who were at a high risk of being forced into the sex trade by their families or picked up off the streets by local pimps. The reasons they were at a high risk? Because they lacked an education or the resources or the skills to, truly, have a choice.

In ten years, we’ve created multiple sewing center partnerships and, with your support, hundreds of women have found freedom through living-wage employment. We’ve learned that giving a woman the opportunity to gain job skills and find a long-term career is vital for creating a pathway to freedom.

We created a non-profit, Sudara Freedom Fund to make a greater impact on the lives of women and children in India. It allows us to equip even more women and their children with education and housing and micro-loans — tools needed to build and sustain a new life.

Thank you for your continued support and being part of our story.