Spotlight On Dhaka Handicrafts, A Socially Responsible Organization

Dhaka Handicrafts

Dhaka Handicrafts Ltd. is one of the largest craft producing and exporting organizations in Bangladesh set up for the benefit of traditional craft makers who are mostly women. Its product specialization is woven baskets from natural fibers, and terracotta pottery. It is an independent Bangladesh organization designed to assist impoverished and disadvantaged rural artisan families to attain self-sufficiency, and at the same time to encourage and market traditional craftsmanship.

A Dhaka Handicrafts Craft Maker

A Dhaka Handicrafts Craft Maker

It is registered in Bangladesh as a “company limited by guarantee”. The owners of the organization are the artisan producers themselves. The company began in 1976 as EDM Handicrafts, a project of Enfants du Monde, the Swiss non-governmental international development organization. EDM Handicrafts has been transformed in the name of Dhaka Handicrafts Ltd as a self-sustaining development project of EDM Bangladesh.

Their Aim:

The aim of Dhaka Handicrafts Ltd. is to uplift the socio-economic condition of distressed artisan families.

A Dhaka Handicrafts Craft Maker

Their Objectives:

With a view to achieve this aim the defined objectives of Dhaka Handicrafts Ltd.are as follows:

1. To create fair income-generating opportunities for socio-economically deprived artisan families.

2. To make the target families and the respective producing groups self-reliant through their earnings, savings, and an awareness of self help.

3. To address gender issues and encourage women’s leadership.

4. To enhance the skills of disadvantaged artisans by providing various skill development training to enable producers to earn a good income from their work.

5. To introduce savings and local resource mobilization schemes.

6. To practice and promote producers’ welfare and family development, and the principles of “fair trade”.

Please browse through their products at http://www.dhakahandicrafts.com/ and buy from them to help these women to provide for themselves and their families.