With a focus on organic, handspun cotton dyed naturally, ATA is helping to position artisans in Senegal to take advantage of emerging global eco-markets. From 2007 to 2008, ATA collaborated with UNIDO to provide training,
With funding from the Kellogg Foundation, ATA has spent the past year teaching new techniques, designs and business skills to talented artisan weavers in Lesotho. Lesotho artisans have spent many years working with mohair from
Accomplishments as of December 2010 30 women artisans from Al Marfa, Hamim, and Fujeirah have directly benefited this project. More than 180 individual products have been designed through ATA's product development with an international designer. These
Accomplishments The REDY! Workshop was held in November, 2008, with intention of stimulating collaboration among regional craft sector stakeholders, as well as providing them with a forum for setting our practical action steps that can
Recently, Lindblad Expeditions kick started the process by sending product development and marketing experts, Stacy Sindlinger and John Gilvey to the island. Working with a vocational school and local artisans, the design team taught students
Accomplishments Founding the India Market Readiness Program (IMRP), a four-day craft business training held in conjunction with the India Handicraft and Gifts Fair, South Asia's largest gift and handcrafts show. The IMRP is an integrated
Building on its experience successfully working with artisans in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, ATA will help the Iraqi women make the transition from a command to market based economy. The training will also utilize
Within this large initiative, Aid to Artisans has been selected to transform the artisan and creative industries sector into a powerful catalyst for economic growth in Haiti itself, with reach into the entire Caribbean region.
Accomplishments Alternativa, a newly formed private Salvadorian NGO social enterprise for artisan enterprises, is officially open. It has two arms, one for commerce and the other for services to artisans. Salvadoran artisans generated $3.06 Million
RISE, was ATA's first matching grant from USAID, a grant for artisan development in Southern Africa that also enabled ATA to strengthen our programming and to build other sources of funding. The Mozambique program was
