Vibrant Recycled Rice Bag Purse
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Fun, functional, and downright ingenious, these delightfully colorful and roomy purses made from lightweight recycled Vietnamese rice bags introduce a whole new spin on urban transport!
Rice bag material is surprisingly tough (it has to be to have once held 25 pounds of rice!), and available in Blue or Red. Purse has two open pockets on the inside - one perfectly sized for a cell phone - and a spacious zippered pocket on the opposite side. Bag exterior has a large zippered pocket on the front, as well as a pouch with a Velcro closure. Top of purse zips closed.
Purse measures 9.75" T x 14" W (24.8 x 35.6 cm) and has a 5" (12.7 cm) footprint. Handmade in and fairly traded from Cambodia.
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Rehab Craft Cambodia
After three decades of war, one of Cambodia's tragic legacies is the countless landmines that dot the countryside. With a population of around 11.5 million, Cambodia currently has one of the highest proportions of people disabled by landmines in the world, at an estimated one in every 290 people. While Cambodians with disabilities have historically had little opportunity to build job experience, Rehab Craft Cambodia provides employment, training and opportunity for a number of disabled Cambodians. A non-profit NGO, Rehab Craft doesn't hire on the basis of education or job experience. Instead, they start at the beginning, and invest in each of their members. Each artisan is trained for six months in tailoring, and for another six months in leather working before they begin making products, making them the most highly-skilled artisan team in the country! The artisans at Rehab Craft make fair wages for skilled work; artisans there earn two and a half to three times the average factory production wage.
More than half of Rehab Craft's members are landmine amputees, and many others are victims of polio. Rehab Craft has 52 permanent staff in production, retail, administration and support groups, all of whom have disabilities. The senior management staff have all been trained and promoted from within Rehab Craft Cambodia. Rehab Craft's future is independent - a non-profit organization run by, and for, Cambodians with disabilities - a powerful example to those who still believe that disability equals dependence.
