Jute Floral File Folder Handmade by Women Artisans
This stylish and ecofriendly folder is ideal for students and professionals. It uses recycled paper and hardy jute fabric. It is roomy enough to provide you plenty of storage space for your paperwork. The jute fabric makes it sturdy and renders it a longlasting quality.
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Why we like it
Gorgeous and green, this folder is a useful product 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: Jute Floral File Folder Handmade by Women Artisans
Package contents: 1 Jute Floral File Folder Handmade by Women Artisans
Dimensions (cms): 14.5cms x 24 cms x 2 cms
Materials: Cardboard, Handmade paper and Dry Flowers
Adorned with pressed, dried natural flowers and leaves, this stylish and ecofriendly folder is ideal for students and professionals. A design inspired by the deep blue of the sea, it is made by pasting recycled paper over jute fabric. It is roomy enough to provide you plenty of storage space for your paperwork. The jute fabric makes it sturdy and renders it a longlasting quality.
The Artisans
This product has 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 material. It thus saves virgin resources 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.