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 GoodWeaveTM HELP CHANGE A SMALL PART OF THE WORLD
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Facts and Figures
- $20,000,000 worth of handmade rugs were certified by GoodWeaveTM in 2003 (export value).
- GoodWeaveTM inspectors rescued an average of 15 children per month in 2003
- More than 4.3 million carpets carrying the GoodWeaveTM label have been sold in Europe and North America since 1995.
India
- Between 200,000 and 300,000 children are involved in the carpet industry in India, the vast majority being in Uttar Pradesh. (South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude)
- Six GoodWeaveTM schools and one rehabilitation center provide education to 1,860 former child weavers in India (as of December 2003).
- 269 Indian exporters, representing approximately 15% of all registered carpet looms, are licensed by GoodWeaveTM, India (as of December 2003).
Nepal
- 1,760 children have been rescued for GoodWeaveTM rehabilitation in Nepal since 1996 (as of August 2004).
- 517 manufacturers representing 70% of Nepal’s carpets exports are inspected by GoodWeaveTM (as of August 2004).
- In 1996 an estimated 50% of Nepal’s carpet weavers were children. Four years after GoodWeaveTM launched in Nepal this figure dropped to less than 5%. (UNICEF, State of the World’s Children, 1997; UNICEF, Situation Analysis of Child Labor in Carpet Industry of Nepal, September 1999).
Pakistan
- 21,045 looms are registered with GoodWeaveTM Pakistan (as of December 2003).
- GoodWeaveTM Pakistan operates two schools in Southern Punjab providing education to 200 children from carpet producing communities (as of December 2003).
- In just 138 villages in Pakistan’s Punjab region 13,700 children, 75% of whom are girls, are engaged in carpet weaving. (ILO-IPEC, 2001)
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