GoodWeave

GoodWeave received emergency funds in the amount of $15,000 to sustain its Afghanistan program until a promised tranche of funding from USAID is able to be released.  In 2012, the foundation assisted the organization in successfully establishing a new certified rug-weaving program in Kabul, Afghanistan.  All benchmarks for the new program had been, or were on target to be achieved; a six-month delay in receipt of pledged monies from USAID would have forced GoodWeave to disband the program.  Funding from the West Foundation and other supporters enabled inroads previously made in Afghanistan to continue through the fourth quarter of 2013 when government funding was released.

GoodWeave works in Afghanistan, Bhutan, India and Nepal, and aims to stop child labor in the carpet industry and to replicate its market-based approach in other sectors of the handicraft industry.