10,051 children restored freedom
78,578 children directly provided educational opportunities
90,283 workers reached in supply chains in 2023
For more than 25 years, GoodWeave has implemented and refined a set of market-driven programs to stop child labor. Our holistic approach aims to heal and educate those children who have been exploited, while changing the underlying root causes. Our work has led to an overall reduction in incidence of child labor in GoodWeave-inspected supply chains, as well as to freedom and education for children. We are also setting a roadmap with suppliers to improve working conditions for all workers. We’ve accomplished these results in partnership with more than 400 companies worldwide. But behind every data point there is a person, and these are their stories.
One Hundred & Fifty Two
Many thanks to Will Jack Robinson of Studio_M for creating this award-winning short documentary about GoodWeave’s work.
Stories of Impact
Shivani: Championing education and independence for vulnerable children
Shivani is a driving force behind the positive change created by a GoodWeave-supported Child Friendly Community in Haryana, India. As a passionate community-based facilitator in a region that is home to a large population of migrant workers employed in nearby carpet factories and workshops, Shivani focuses on how to ensure rights and protections for these individuals.
Meet Aakash: overcoming child labor and loss with GoodWeave’s support
Aakash’s story is all too common in his home country of Nepal. He is from Makawanpur district, where there is discrimination against the native Chepang people who rarely have access to basic needs, such as education and sustainable livelihoods.
Evaluation Reports
End-Term Review of Sourcing Freedom: Expanding GoodWeave’s Work to Address Modern Slavery in UK Company Supply Chains
This independent evaluation (pages 8-9), conducted in 2019 by the UK Government’s Modern Slavery Innovation Fund, assesses the results of a two-year project to expand GoodWeave’s supply chain and preventative programming in India. The evaluation finds “strong evidence that Goodweave’s methodology can, over time, produce systemic and behavioural change in different stakeholders – ranging from suppliers, to individuals in bonded/child labour, government and middlemen.”
External Evaluation of GoodWeave’s Child Friendly Communities Programming
This report examines the impact of GoodWeave’s Child Friendly Communities (CFCs). Based in India, CFCs provide educational remediation programming and school enrollment assistance in communities where carpets, apparel, home textiles and tea are produced.
Impact Reports
2020 Impact Report
