Crossbody Bag Navy Night - Bangladesh
| Article number: | 6604120 |
| Availability: | In stock (2) |
Slip in your phone, wallet, a lip balm, and you're off! Perfectly sized to hold your essentials, safely zipped inside in a beautifully, fully lined bag. With two interior slip pockets and an exterior one, you're all set with this crossbody bag designed for everyday running around. Handcrafted by environmentalist artisans with Prokritee, an organization in Bangladesh that provides jobs and skills training for women in under-resourced communities. Prokritee improves women's standard of living with safe jobs, fair wages, and the goal of self-reliance, helping mothers send their children to school to break the cycle of generational poverty. It employs women traditionally excluded from the market: widows, heads of households, rural poor, or landless without another source of income. They are experts at keeping waste out of landfills and waterways, using recycled sari, eco-friendly dyes, and their award-winning water-hyacinth paper.
Features:
- Materials: 100% cotton
- Measures: 5"W x 8.75"L with 45"L strap
- Care: Wipe clean
- Colour: Navy & Teal
- Notes: Strap has swivel clips at both ends and is nonadjustable.
- Made in Bangladesh
Artisan Story:
Prokritee (meaning "nature" in Bengali) manages several handicraft enterprises and helps other groups sell their products in local and foreign markets. Prokritee and its enterprises provide jobs for poor rural women. By providing jobs for women, Prokritee improves women’s standard of living and helps them send their children to school. The organization provides skills development training to artisans. Prokritee creates and promotes income–generating projects that benefit the artisans, adhere to good safety and environmental standards, and have the potential to become self–reliant. Prokritee was established in 2001 as an independent organization.
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Villages Port Colborne is located along the shore of the Niagara Peninsula. Where the Welland Canal and Lake Erie meet, in the heart of Port Colborne, we have been fair trade since 1984. We carry unique, handcrafted goods that are ethically made from artisans around the world. If you’re in the Southern Ontario area, we welcome you to visit us in-person!