Bangladesh
AARONG
AARONG is a fair trade organisation dedicated to bringing about positive changes in the lives of disadvantaged artisans and underprivileged rural women by reviving and promoting their skills and crafts. Among the artisans Aarong reaches out to are weavers, potters, more...
CJW - CORR - The Jute Works
Mission: Organising the poor, neglected rural women and the indigenous people of our society, by providing them proper training and creating awareness and helping them increase their economic development, working skills and leadership to become self-reliant.
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Dhaka Handicrafts
Aim: to uplift the socio-economic condition of distressed artisan families.
Their objectives are to:
create fair income generating opportunities for socio-economically deprived artisan families
make the families and producing groups self-reliant through earnings, more...
Prokritee
MCC set up enterprises in 1975 to create jobs in small cottage industries in rural areas. Their objectives (and now Prokritee's) are:
to create, promote and assist income-generating projects that are operated and managed to benefit producers, adhere to good safety and more...
Saidpur Enterprises
To create long-term job opportunities for poor destitute women and provide them with a regular income
To develop leadership and business skills among the employees
To produce high quality product, using labour-intensive production methods and ecologically sound more...
Valerian Handicrafts
The goal of Valerian Handicrafts is to help very poor women obtain income for the basics of living. more...
YWCA CRAFT CENTRE
The aims of the YWCA Craft Centre are to:
provide skill training for women, especially those who are uneducated and destitute
create job opportunities for these women
develop markets, and in particular export markets, for products produced by women at the centre.
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