Visiting Card Box Handmade by Women Artisans
This handcrafted, ecofriendly box is perfect for organizing little prints, memories and business cards. Made out of recycled hardboard, it is durable and sturdy.
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Why we like it
This box is gorgeous and green, and comes with a great origin story. It is handmade using recycled materials by a collective of erstwhile women waste pickers turned skilled artists who are moving out of a life of poverty and towards financial freedom.
The Product
Product name: Visiting Card Box Handmade by Women Artisans
Package contents: 1 Visiting Card Box Handmade by Women Artisans
Dimensions (cms): 7.1cms x 11.5cms x 4.6cms
Materials: Cardboard, Handmade paper and Dry Flowers
This handcrafted, ecofriendly box is perfect for organizing little prints, memories and business cards. Made out of recycled hardboard, it is durable and sturdy.
The Artisans
These products have been painstakingly crafted by a collective of women in the Ghazipur slum community who formerly worked as wastepickers. The women are trained in embroidery, stitching and delicate floral art, thereby giving them the skills they need to become financially selfsufficient. Some of the women are employed in a womenrun centre in East Ghazipur where they make these unique and useful products. The making of these products transforms these women from wastepickers into skilled artisans and provides them a safe, dignified and sustainable livelihood.
Your Impact
Environmental impact
This product uses ecofriendly materials like discarded flowers and recycled paper. It thus saves virgin paper and keeps hundreds of tons of used flowers from being dumped in the garbage or thrown into water bodies.
Social impact
This is more than just a beautifully crafted product. Its making has helped upskill and provide alternative employment and a stable income to more than 100 underprivileged women who were formerly engaged in wastepicking. It empowers them to move out of a life of poverty, illness and uncertainty into a life of respect and economic selfreliance.