Harijan Ahmedabad - Sunday July 21 1946

While it is true that for the most part the donations to the Trust came from city-dwellers it is equally true that the aim of the collectors was that the money should be spent in the villages for the benefit of village women and children. [...] Let it be understood that it is not an attempt to go back to the dark ages when the Charkha was the symbol of the slavery of the masses. [...] The foreigners saw the hidden possibilities that were in it and by the application of steam and electricity created mills and used them as instruments of exploitation of the simple races of the earth. [...] " KASTURBA TRUST In the course of the same address he referred to the work of the Kasturba Trust which he characteried as being more difficult than that of the A. I. S. A. They had collected one and a quarter crores of rupees but the money had to be spent on the welfare of women and children in the villages. [...] The relish did not lie in the food but in the appetite that honest toil and the contentment of the mind give.