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Add a touch of whimsy to a child's room—hang several from the ceiling, along a bunk bed, or create your own mobile. This felt T-Rex would be just as happy to decorate a dinosaur-themed birthday too! Come holiday time, move it to the tree. Handcrafted by artisans at the Association for Craft Producers in Kathmandu, Nepal—a nonprofit group that provides design, marketing, management, and technical services to low-income artisans, the majority of whom are women.
HANDCRAFTED IN NEPAL
SKU: 5905160
THE MAKERS
Association for Craft Producers (ACP) is a nonprofit group that provides design, marketing, management and technical services to low-income artisans, the majority of them women, providing regular, fair wages. In addition to a central production and design workshop, the association maintains a full-time staff. ACP also owns retail outlet called Dhukuti in Kathmandu, Nepal. ACP has successfully balanced its business priorities with a strong sense of social obligation. Producer benefits include medical and counseling services, a savings program and retirement fund, paid maternity and paternity leave, education allowance to encourage education especially of daughters, low-interest loans for producer groups, clothing and household allowances, and seminars on health, nutrition and women’s rights. Ten Thousand Villages has purchased products from ACP since 1987.
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