The Brave Little Shopkeeper

When school projects help a business grow

The pretty Mrs. Patra in her ingenious shop. Photo by the author.

What if your skill was pretty craft projects for school?
What if you were jobless despite your papier-mâché and paper-folding skills?
This is the picture-story of that person.
The shop went from a service-providing one (prettifying projects) to being a “Variety Shop” — a shop that sells a variety of goods, like perfumes, stationery, gifts, yoga mats, badminton rackets toys and crockery.

Photo by the author.

This successful young entrepreneur started her shop with the premise: not everybody likes to slave over school projects, but everyone would love to see the teacher smiling when a pretty project is submitted.

Inside of the lady’s shop. Photo by the author.

She started a shop called Project World, where she takes the bare bones of a school project written out by a student, and then adds a calligraphy subtitle, a pretty cover and then prepares it for submission.