"The End of Child Labor"

GoodWeave has set an ambitious goal of ending child labor in the handmade rug industry by 2018. This young boy, playing with other rescued child weavers, is wearing a shirt that declares "The end of child labor."

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Rescue and educate "carpet kids" in South Asia

Nepal Children

This project is devoted to the rescue of the 250,000 trafficked and exploited child laborers in South Asia's carpet looms, and ensuring their access to schooling and social programs. GoodWeave educates consumers, partners with importers, and certifies rugs as child-labor-free, thus taking away the profitability and invisibility of child labor.

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