{"id":649464,"date":"2021-02-15T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=649464"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T11:39:51","slug":"shakti-ism-is-a-social-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/shakti-ism-is-a-social-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakti.ism is a social enterprise working to provide employment for women&#8230; They upcycle traditional sari fabric into really pretty things (bags, wallets, gift wrap). shaktiism.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-649475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/inni-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/inni-1.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/inni-1-36x36.jpg 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lots of gifts available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/shaktiism.com\/\">shaktiism.com<\/a><\/span><\/span>, an organisation doubly worth supporting as they are also focused on grassroots issues. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shakti.ism is a social enterprise working to provide employment for women in marginalised communities. They upcycle traditional sari fabric into really pretty things (bags, wallets, gift wrap).<\/p>\n<p>Shaktiism is a social enterprise working to empower and employ disadvantaged women, and investing profits back into the community. Beautiful one-of-a-kind gifts and accessories made from upcycled saris, lovingly made in India + Bangladesh<\/p>\n<p>Shaktism (Sanskrit: \u015a\u0101kta\u1e25, lit., &#8220;doctrine of energy, power, the eternal goddess&#8221;) is a major sect of Hinduism, wherein the metaphysical reality is considered metaphorically a woman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-649465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/132029666_411839170251984_4765476369661275941_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/132029666_411839170251984_4765476369661275941_o.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/132029666_411839170251984_4765476369661275941_o-55x55.jpg 55w, 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Shakti.ism is a social enterprise working to provide employment for women in marginalised communities. They upcycle traditional sari fabric into really pretty things (bags, wallets, gift wrap). Shaktiism is a social enterprise working to empower and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":649476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}