ArtisansThrive

Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco

Peru

CTTC uses sustainable Peruvian ancestral textiles traditions, enabling the weavers to maintain their identity and traditions while improving their quality of life.

CIS

El Salvador

One of their many objectives is to encourage the development and commercialization of Salvadoran crafts made by cooperatives, especially by youth, women, and ex-combatants.

Damascus Concepts

Asia

Damascus Concepts works with displaced Syrian women who have learned this skill as part of an income-generation project for themselves and their families.

Far Fetched

Sonoma, CA

Made for you by: Far Fetched is located in Sonoma County, California, where the vineyards meet the coastal redwoods. Jewelry is designed here and produced by our sister company, Cuervo Metal, by silversmiths in a cottage industry setting.

Free Zambia

Lusaka, Zambia

The Foundation for the Realization of Economic Empowerment (F.R.E.E.) Zambia was founded in 2010 to empower women in Zambia. It was started to provide the women with skills to earn a higher income.

Friendship Bridge

Dharampur, India

They provide skills training and fair wages for women who are at a high risk for prostitution.

Friendship Bridge

Guatemala

Made for you by: Guatemalan women who are part of Friendship Bridge’s Artisan Market Access Program. Friendship Bridge provides them with trainings designed to ready them to access new markets. Women also have access to microloans and life skills training.

Haiti's Jewels

Haiti

Haiti's Jewels employs Haitian artisans (the majority women) who are, for the most part, young struggling parents in need of a stable, hearty income.

International Peace Initiative

Meru County, Kenya

These women are often abandoned and as a result, are the sole earners for their families. Through this cooperative, they receive skills training in jewelry making and weaving and running a business.

Mujeres con Vision

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Made for you by: Women from the Mujeres Con Vision (MCV) Cooperative in Guatemala. Designed in collaboration with Artisans Thrive. Your purchase supports: Skills training and fair wages for the women of MCV.

Musana

Uganda

Musana is committed to providing shelter, health, education and life skills to disadvantaged rural communities in Uganda with emphasis on widows and children, enabling them to be economically and socially independent while maintaining their dignity and living long, healthy and creative lives.

Rising Mart

India

Handmade by the female artisans of Rising Mart cooperative in India.

Saoban Crafts

Laos

Made for you by: Women part of Saoban Crafts in Laos. Your purchase supports: Skills training and income for women.

Sasa Designs

Kenya

Made by a group of strong, proud deaf women. Long taught to be ashamed of their “disability,” they have now been crafting intricate jewelry for nearly five years. With many single moms in the group, the next generation will soar thanks to consistent wages, access to healthcare and healthy food.

Sewing New Futures

Dharampur, India

Made for you by: Girls/women (ages 17-21) from the Indian Perna Community in Dharampura who are at high risk for prostitution. An alternate livelihood, the women receive paid vocational training at fair wages.

SutiSana

Epizana Alto

SutiSana was founded in 2010 for that friend and so many women like her. We exist as a freedom business that fights trafficking and sexual exploitation by offering new and abundant life for our artisans.

The Small World

Nepal

Weaving for Empowerment (WfE) is an initiative started by The Small World, a locally-run NGO in Nepal. They seek to empower local communities through sustainable community development works; provide children, especially at risk young girls, with an access to education; and empower women.

Tribalogy

Amman, Jordan

Tribalogy is a creation with cause. We work with women from disadvantaged communities in Jordan. Our project helps these women to STEP UP from poverty and create a better tomorrow. for themselves and their family, which in return will bring a. better tomorrow for all of us.

Weaving for Empowerment

Nepal

Young women part of the Weaving For Empowerment Group started by The Small World. Many of the women have come from the hill and mountain areas for school and job opportunities to provide for themselves and their families. Your purchase supports skills training for these women in Nepal.

Weaving for Life

Pokhara, Nepal

The majority of Weaving for Life's members have been abandoned due to being victims of sex trafficking, being widowed or divorced, or otherwise losing their husbands. Collective participants receive skills and business training.

Women in Leadership

Uganda

Women In Leadership seeks to empower women and girls with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their own communities.