| Project Detail |
GoodWeave’s market-based System brings visibility to hidden supply chains through mapping and inspections that extend beyond factory walls down to small producer communities and homes. GoodWeave protects workers and informs them of their rights, and restores childhood by rescuing children from labour and ensuring their school enrolment. The GoodWeave® label is the best assurance to companies and consumers that nobody was exploited in the production of their goods, and can now be found on carpets, home textiles, and coming soon - apparel. GoodWeave’s capacity building division collaborates with and trains other organisations to strengthen their impact on child labour with existing projects in tea and bricks.
With over 170 brand partners and 20% of international market share, GoodWeave has transformed South Asia’s handmade carpet sector, where child labour has dropped from one million victims in 1995 down to an estimated 200,000 today. That reduction is almost double the global rate.
GoodWeave India Trust, GWI’s India affiliate, conducts supply chain mapping and inspection and monitoring from the factory floor to the home-based production; rescues and rehabilites child laborers; and implements prevention programs that address root causes of child labor. to children. GoodWeave India is based in Delhi NCR with additional offices in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, , Haryana; and Jaipur, Rajasthan |
