Product Design Workshop, Madagascar
Malagasy artisans learn about product design.
photo credit: CRS/Adam Taylor
CRS partners with A Greater Gift to bring you Work of Human Hands, a Fair Trade handcraft program that promotes the social and economic progress of artisans and farmers in need by marketing their products in a just and direct manner. CRS and A Greater Gift are also partnering on the ground in Africa to help bring more talented artisans into the international trading system on fair terms. Since November 2005, CRS has awarded two Fair Trade Fund Development Grants to our partners at A Greater Gift and to several of the artisan groups we support in Madagascar as part of this effort.
The first grant brought our friends from A Greater Gift together with our friends in Madagascar to foster new relationships and build new skills-A Greater Gift's Producer Relations and Product Development directors visited artisan groups throughout the country and conducted a skills workshop in the capital of Antananarivo.
The second grant supported an intensive five-day product design training for two dozen women artisans designed to help them build the skills they need to one day export their products to the United States through the Work of Human Hands program.
Learn more about the CRS Fair Trade Fund.
Make a secure on-line donation to support exciting and important initiatives like this one.
Read about our work in Madagascar.