24/12/2025
Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) (Thailand) is People and Planet First verified.
Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) was founded in 1990 to empower marginalised indigenous women, refugees and their children from Myanmar and northern Thailand. They work with women artisans from remote hill tribe villages, Karen and Karenni refugee camps on the Thai Myanmar border and the surrounding host communities to address poverty and food insecurity and increase social cohesion and collaboration through handwoven fair trade housewares and accessories. Products are available online and through wholesale partners.
WEAVE is committed to gender equality, fair wages, safe working conditions, preserving traditional skills and techniques and living in harmony with nature. Their natural dye range is coloured with sustainably harvested local bark, fruits and leaves. Profits are used to support education, environmental initiatives and supplementary food, shelter and essential materials for people in need. WEAVE is a Guaranteed Member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) and part of WFTO Asia, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA), Fair Trade Alliance Thailand, MADE51 and the Committee for Coordination of Services to Displaced Persons in Thailand (CCSDPT).
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