Treating yourself to a stunningly beautiful wedding dress or dramatically different evening outfit from Merchants of India may not seem like an entirely selfless gesture on the face of it.
But Merchants of India is by no means a typical fashion house, because every penny of profit is ploughed into a Christian charitable venture and the manufacturing process provides valuable work and income for disadvantaged people.
Charity for orphanage
Merchants of India’s international award-winning fashion designer, Seema Isaiah, was born in Hassan, south of Bangalore, and has seen first-hand the distressing living conditions of many children and adults in southern India. Seema, who is a committed Christian, set up the UK charity to fund the building of an orphanage and employment training work shop, aiming to feed, clothe, house and educate disadvantaged children and adults close to her Indian home in Karnataka, near Bangalore.
