In 1997, 10 years after the foundation of the organisation, Jan Jagaran Samiti, Mukti Datta happened to meet Dena Kaye, the daughter of Danny Kaye and president of the Danny Kaye and Silvia Fine Foundation. Dena Kaye had been travelling in India looking for projects to support (initially as an UNICEF initiative).

This meeting would change the lives of hundreds of people in the villages around Amora and Binsar.

Dena´s generosity and her personal commitment played a major role in each phase of the projects; weaving centres were built, looms and raw materials were bought. Two machines for the processing of pashmina wool were imported from Scotland.