Kudumbashree Performed Chavittunatakam

• 27 Dec 2023

A total of 504 members of the Kudumbashree Mission, participated in a Chavittunatakam performance to set a world record.

• The Chavittunatakam performance told the story of the Kudumbashree Mission, which was set up in 1998 under the People’s Plan Campaign.
  • Mission was launched as a poverty eradication programme aimed at ending intergenerational transmission of poverty and its growth into a women’s empowerment movement was narrated by the women on stage with all the drama that accompanies a Chavittunatakam performance.
• Chavittunatakam is a drama form that has a great following in the coastal districts of central Kerala.
• The Kudumbashree performance also won the World Talent Record.
  • It was organized as part of the campaign to popularize the ongoing National Saras Mela 2023.
    • Saras Mela has been organized with the aim of empowering women and giving market to the goods produced by Self Help Groups.

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