Kundakala C.I.C. was founded in memory of my mother, the late Indian artist Kunda Kirloskar, to mitigate the post pandemic cost-of-living crisis. The idea was (and still is) to print Kunda’s designs on fabric and provide tailoring skills and enterprise support to ethnic minority women, enabling them to become professional seamstresses. We felt that this would help them tackle the crisis by saving money, reducing debt, and opening a new avenue of income generation.

In 2022 we ran two pilots in the London Boroughs of Barnet and Hackney supporting 20 women through a six-month programme and successfully proved our concept.

Today, in 2024, we are slowly expanding across London, supporting around 150+ ethnic minority women, and helping some of them set up their own microbusinesses. We feel the time is now right to talk about our work and its impact on the women we support.
Poornima Kirloskar-Saini
Founder & CEO