employs a community of hand-knitters in Peru living in rural areas, providing them with access to training in reproductive, social and economic rights. The organization gives Peruvian women an opportunity to leave the domestic sphere and “build a relationship with the world,” in hopes they can realize their full potential and exercise their human rights as women.

is a World Fair Trade Organization member in Nepal supporting low-income artisans with design, marketing, and technical services. The Association for Craft Producers blends traditional craft with modern design and offers a flexible program for creative collaboration, providing benefits and programing for their producers' welfare and the conservation of the environment.

is a fair trade collective made up of over a dozen women’s artisan member groups. Based in Mae Sot along the Thailand-Burma border, Borderline is committed to promoting gender equality, health and safety for women and children, women’s rights, early childhood development and political engagement.

is located in Cantel, Guatemala. What started as an initiative to create sustainable jobs for local artisans has become a worker-owned facility and point of pride in the community, providing artisans with health insurance, fair living wages, and­ ownership of the cooperative. By purchasing land and building their kiln and workspace in Cantel, this small group of artisans continues to take sustainability seriously by reusing recycled glass and honoring their local environment.

The artisans of Juan Platero create stylish accessories with Mayan flair. The small workshop, located in the outskirts of Antigua, Guatemala, provides home-based income generation projects for women plagued by the unstable job market of the coffee farming industry.

is a family-run organization employing women knitters from the Peruvian highlands. Naguska prides itself on providing consistent work to hundreds of artisans while offering them the opportunity to supplement their family income from farming by creating hand-knit accessories from locally sourced materials, such as cotton and alpaca wool.

is a World Fair Trade Organization member nonprofit providing sustainable employment to women artisans in Bangladesh since 2001.

Few jobs are offered to South Africans with little formal education, but at Streetwires / Netshomi Zen, 70 artisans in the townships of Cape Town earn sustainable incomes through the sale of their wire and bead creations.

In 2006, three sisters founded Sumaq Qara with the goal of returning economic opportunity to the women of Ayacucho, Peru. Internally displaced from guerrilla warfare or domestic violence, these women are generally unable to earn a living selling their products without Sumaq Qara’s resources and connections to the global market. Sumaq Qara is a member of Peru Fair Trade.