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GoodWeave Comes of Age
November 8, 2016
By Michael Christie, Rug Insider
In 1995 the first GoodWeave (née RugMark) certified carpets began arriving in the west and so began a journey which at its core, seeks to improve the lives of those who make the carpets we so love. The premise is twofold yet simple....
GoodWeave: A Global Reach
August 15, 2016
By Jeff Turrentine, Interiors Magazine
The furnishings we choose for our homes are supposed to make us feel good: to inspire and entice, to create comfort or elicit joy. To say that we “love” a particular item we use, see or appreciate every day is to ack...
In Light of ABC News Report, GoodWeave Encourages Due Diligence but Ongoing Charitable Support for Nepal
Founded 20 years ago, GoodWeave’s Hamro Ghar is fully-registered with the Government of Nepal Central Children’s Welfare Board and is staffed by professional social workers and care staff. It serves as a transit home offering both short-term and long-term services for children rescued from se...
Ending Child Labor: The Dirty Business of Cleaning Up Supply Chains
This opinion piece was written by GoodWeave CEO Nina Smith and first appeared in Huffington Post on June 10, 2016.
For most major brands, such a designation would be accurate. Despite companies making large investments to secure ethical supply chains, the International Labour Organization...
After Nepal’s Earthquake, A Push To Rebuild Without Child Labor
This article is by Michael Holtz and was originally published on PBS News Hour on June 8, 2016.
On a cool spring day last year, Dorje Lama was playing soccer at the brick kiln where he worked when the ground began to shake. It turned out to be a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the worst i...
GoodWeave’s Nina Smith Honored as 2016 Schwab Social Entrepreneur
Ms. Smith was selected for her leadership in the anti-slavery movement, having built and scaled a market-driven model to end child labor and trafficking in global supply chains. GoodWeave’s initial focus in the handmade carpet industry of South Asia has contributed to an 80% decline in the prev...
Global Living Wage Coalition and GoodWeave Release First Living Wage Study in Rural India
The research documents poor earnings, particularly among the population of workers who comprise the informal economy—those at the bottom of the supply chain. GoodWeave links this wage gap directly to low school enrollment and child labor and aims to use this information to benchmark as we colla...
