Where empowerment and nature's wonders unite.

The Mahuvaa Co. is a women-run enterprise in Village Hurlung, Jharkhand, making Ayurvedic and aromatherapy preparations by hand since long before either word carried weight on a shelf in Britain.

Village Hurlung, Jharkhand

Fifty women, ninety per cent of the workforce.

We were built to give women in the district paid, skilled work without leaving it. Around fifty women now make everything by hand — cold-process, small batch, mixed and cut and wrapped in the same rooms.

Production runs on solar power and produces no pollutant discharge. Herbs come from the enterprise's own organic farms or local farmers: rose, aloe vera, mehndi, ashwagandha, shatavari, bhringraj, brahmi.

What the work pays for

The measure of this enterprise isn't the range. It's what the range funds. Earnings are returned to the village rather than extracted from it, and the results are the sort you can walk around and point at.

An English-medium school now teaches more than fifty children. A gaushala runs alongside it. Girls who finish school are funded through higher education — the part that usually stops for want of money rather than want of ability.

The National Award for micro and small enterprise was presented in 2010 by the then President of India, Pratibha Patil.

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None of this is a campaign. It has been the operating method since the beginning, which is the only reason it is worth putting on a website at all. When you stock Mahuvaa, this is the supply chain behind the box — short, traceable, and accountable to the people in it.