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 and social enterprise whose mission is to transform the lives of Indian artisans by building access to the international market for their handcrafted goods.A lead er of the fair trade movement in India for over 40 years, "Asha" means “hope” in Sanskrit.

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.

is an artisan cooperative based in Bangladesh and a member of the World Fair Trade Organization. Corr Jute's mission is to ensure trade justice, market access and improved living standards for the disadvantaged and marginalized, especially women, people with disabilities, and indigenous people.

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 registered NGO in rural Guatemala, where women too often find themselves stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty. Kiej de los Bosques aims to end this cycle, by enabling women artisans to share their stories through their artistry, helping to unite communities from around the globe.

is a nonprofit Fair Trade Federation member working directly with Mayan women weavers, who make up the poorest sector in Guatemalan society, being doubly disadvantaged, as Mayan and as women. Mayan Hands provides resources such as scholarships, school supplies, potable water, and medical support for its artisans, while also creating opportunities for women to continue the 3000-year-old tradition of back-strap loom weaving.

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.

is an artisan workshop based in Mexico dedicated to resuscitating the traditional craft of grabado - glass carving. In addition to technical skills training, Rose Ann Hall Designs provides educational and life skills programs to its small cadre of artisans, including several with physical disabilities who had never earned an income before. All of Rose Ann Hall Design's work is done on recycled glass, breathing new life into discarded material and providing dignified work to artisans in a region where skilled jobs at living wages are scarce.

is a social enterprise and member of the World Fair Trade Organization whose mission is to preserve Ethiopia's ancient weaving and spinning traditions and contribute to its development by providing reliable employment and equitable pay for hundreds of artisans. Sabahar currently employs 50 people at its workshop in Addis Ababa and engages another 100 artisans who spin and weave by hand in their own homes or in cooperatives around the city.

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.