Label STEP’s partnership with the UKaid Skills for Employment (सीप) Programme, is working to revitalize Nepal’s high-value carpet industry by taking the carpet manufacturing hub from Kathmandu to an underserved geographic area—Sarlahi in Province 2 that has traditionally served as the origin of Nepal’s weaving community.
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With investments and interventions from leading national and international carpet manufacturers’ and designers, since September 2019, this partnerships has helped establish eight fair-trade weaving workshops in Sarlahi where local women, primarily from migrant households and disadvantaged groups, and People with Disabilities (PwDs) are skilled and recruited—using international-quality competency standard and industry-led skills training and certification to ensure availability of qualified and committed weavers. (Read more...)