CORR The Jute Works
Empowering Women In Bangladesh
In Their Own Words
Country: Bangladesh
Year Founded: 1973
Who do they help? CORR The Jute Works envisions the Empowerment and Dignity of the disadvantaged and marginalized; especially women, people with disability and indigenous people of the society.
How do they help? The women, being mostly illiterate, produce handicrafts with local materials during free time between household activities, to supplement their marginal family income, contributing towards a better living condition.
Special Thanks to: Bertha for you assistance and granting me permission to use your artisan images
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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