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Wild Boar Creek    


WildBoar Creek is a Fair Trade importer whose product lines include silk textiles, silk and reed bags, pouches and cases, reed floormats, picnic/beach mats and placemats. All of their products are handwoven/handmade by subsistence farmers, landmine victims, widowed mothers and women heads-of-household, victims of domestic violence, and other economically or otherwise disadvantaged Cambodians. At present, they work with 12 villages. They are deeply committed to helping these talented but poverty-stricken people improve their standard of living.

 


Rehab Craft Cambodia    


Rehab Craft Cambodia is a non-profit NGO run by and for Cambodians with disabilities.  All earnings are re-invested in training and employment programs. They pay fair wages, maintain staff benefit programs to support individual needs. All medical, maternity, and holiday benefits equal or exceed legal requirements. All expenses related to disability (such as prosthetics or wheelchairs) are fully paid by RCC. They maintain a staff loan program for individual, family or emergency needs.

More than one-half of Rehab Craft's members are landmine amputees.  The second-leading cause of disability among their membership is polio.  Societal attitudes further 'disable' people by closing doors and limiting their lives.  Rehab Craft addresses both the needs and the perceptions of this community, by giving them responsibility for their own futures.

Because Cambodians with disabilities have had so few opportunities, they don't hire on the basis of education or job experience.  They start at the beginning, and invest in their members.  Each producer had six months of training before they began making products - now; they're the most highly-skilled team in the country.