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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 com...
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 k...
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...
