This product is made by The Craft Centre in Bangladesh. The Craft Centre was established in 1973 by the YWCA as a non-profit organisation with the aim of providing training and job opportunities for women. Today, about 450 women are working as craft producers with the YWCA in Bangladesh.
The goals and objectives of The Craft Centre include: to provide skills, training and an income to women, especially the uneducated and destitute; to develop markets for the products made by women at the centre; and to establish craft centres in other parts of Bangladesh.
In addition to providing a fair wage to its producers, The Craft Centre provides services such as literacy training, health and nutritional advice, subsidised food and medicines, a savings scheme, interest free loans, legal advice and an annual recreational programme. Any profits from The Craft Centre are distributed among other projects of the YWCA. In November 2005, a new Craft Centre was opened in Savar, a village about 30km outside Dhaka.