Dhaka Handicrafts Ltd. is one of the largest craft producing and exporting organizations in Bangladesh set up for the benefit of traditional craftmakers. Its product specialization is woven baskets from natural fibres, 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.
Dhaka Handicrafts Ltd. is registered in Bangladesh as a “company limited by guarantee”. The owners of the organization are the artisan producers themselves.
Dhaka Handicrafts Ltd. 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.
Aim:
The aim of Dhaka Handicrafts Ltd. is to uplift the socio-economic condition of distressed artisan families.
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”.
Our commitment to buyers:
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Good quality product
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On time delivery
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Fair prices.
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One-source supplier for products of different natural materials such as cane, grass, bamboo, terracotta, and mixed media.
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Background information is availabe on producers and their products.
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Environmentally friendly products made in ecologically-sound and sustainable conditions.
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Child labour is prohibited.
Our commitment to producers:
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Interest free advance payment with each order, for the procurement of raw materials.
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Savings scheme for producers’ old age security.
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Safe working environment and flexible working hours.
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Health care.
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Training for quality improvement and product development.
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Incentives for production quantity and quality.
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Rights to participate in pricing, product development, decision making of the organization’s activities.
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Prompt payment.
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Sapling distribution for the conservation of environment.
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Equal wages for women and men producers.
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Gender focus on women.
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26 years experience in production and marketing.
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Approximately 3,200 producer families with over 16,000 beneficiaries, working in 64 groups throughout Bangladesh.
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Skilled producers with high production capacity.
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An organization committed towards fair trade.
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Environmentally-friendly products.
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Highly professional quality control team
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Modern warehouse facilities with moisture detector and moisture control system.
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Regular process of product development.
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Well equipped office with modern facilities of communication
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Self sustained organization without any external dependency.
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35 regular buyers in Asia, Europe, America and the Pacific.
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