ANU Life is a small enterprise of 12 women in a slum in East Bangalore. They buy used tetra pack cartons of milk/juice and turn them into useful products.

Used milk/juice cartons are bought from colleges and building complexes. The used cartons are washed, cleaned, dried and later are cut into strips and then woven into bags, pouches, and bins. They are then lined and stitched by a local tailor. The women make one large bag and one small bag each day. (1)

Devika’s work in urban slums started in Bangalore in 2009, when she set up the Anu business unit in JanakiRam slum – which in four years has transformed into a private limited company completely owned and operated by the women from the slum, with no intervention from Devika. (2)

They have an online shop with the following products (3):

• Large baskets
• Medium baskets
• Small baskets
• Grocery bags/baskets
• Large shopper
• Medium shopper
• Small shopper
• Snack sacks
• Pencil pouch