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Conserve India is a group we have recently started working with that takes trash off the ground and makes beautiful bags and wallets. Here are some pictures of their interns playing with school children:
Artisans in developing economies struggle daily against incredible challenges – access to raw materials, stable infrastructures, dependable logistics, etc. – however, natural disasters seems to top the list this year for challenges facing these artisans. The world watched with unbelief as one of the largest earthquakes in modern history rocked the South American country of [...]
In March of 2009, a truck filled with plastic storage bins backed up to our warehouse door, with each of the more than 400 bins contained a different textile product from Guatemala. For a company that in the past worked with fair trade organizations in 20 countries, we knew suprisingly little about textiles and even [...]
Thankfully, we’ve heard from most of our producers in Haiti and there were no casualties among the artisans. One worker’s foot was seriously injured and the facilities have taken considerable damage, but considering the devastating effects the earthquake had on the country, we are very relieved with this news. It may be some time before [...]
Village Artisan shares an appreciation for the beauty of traditional crafts, yet has a conscience regarding our environment and the people who live in it. It was this appreciation which lead us to place our production facility right in the heart of a under developed artisan community in North India. From handmade paper to bone [...]
Ben Ncube started B & B Craft & Recycling as an individual artisan working in the new South African tradition of making crafts from recycled materials, such as tin cans and discarded wire and incorporating beads in his designs. As the demand for the products he made grew, Ben, “the Can Man” started training apprentices in [...]
