How do Rugs and Beyond empower local women weavers

Women’s Day is just about to come and International Women’s Day has been celebrated since the early 1900s with the first “National Women’s Day” held in the United States in 1909 before women even had the right to vote.

We can definitely say that they are multi-talented, collaborators and have creativity. Women have special qualities. A man can never play the similar role as a woman does. Women can manage a home very beautifully with their jobs and all. In a general way, we can say that women have a higher rank than men in any industry. From Sushma Swaraj, Kalpana Chawla to village women, give 100% results in every field. 

1) Women in rug Industries-:

Women in a rural area also earn money by working in the carpet industries. Yes, they are women weavers. In carpet industry, there are many works for women like weaving, finishing, binding, dying, sampling etc.

There are many companies which provide jobs for the rural area women where the family members do not allow working outside.

 2) How Rugs and Beyond helping to empower and motivate:-

Yes, Rugs and Beyond is also one of them. They are also encouraging women empowerment by supporting and providing them a platform to show their talent. This is an e-commerce platform for Yak Carpet which is established in 1976. They have the largest inventory of all types of handmade rugs- Kashmir Silk Rugs, Wool Rugs, Persian Rugs, Afghan Rugs, Kilim Rugs, Antiques, and Modern area rugs. These are highly demanded products for a home décor. They provide more opportunity to village women.

A) Provides job opportunities:

Rugs and Beyond is also a manufacturing carpet company and there are more than 60% weavers are women. Rugs and Beyond works with a network of 15,000 weavers including 9000 women and takes responsibility to bind them all with a common thread of love and compassion. They give opportunities to women for growth and development. So they are engaged in motivating and supporting their children to complete their education.

B) Provides Training:

Rugs and Beyond concentrate on pursuing unemployed and unskilled women living in rural villages and provide training in the craft of handmade rug weaving. Once a woman is an expert as a working artisan, she gets an opportunity to work with Rugs and Beyond at good salary.

C) Create Groups for help:

Rugs and Beyond create some groups of women to weave carpets. Maximum three women weave a carpet together according to the length of carpets. They use to sing songs related to carpets when they weave it. This is an easy and safe job for women where they easily earn money and fulfill the requirements of family members.

Rugs and Beyond support women, help to ensure each other financial success.  They are also focused on the education of villagers so that they can communicate smoothly because Rugs and Beyond believe that every human has right to learn how to read and write.

Mostly, the women villagers use to be unaware of insurance and other government benefits. Even if they know about such types of benefits, they hesitate to apply for the same due to a long process. So, Rugs and Beyond reach out to villagers to inform and tell the benefits of insurance, especially for women weavers.

The CEO of Rugs and Beyond Sakshi Talwar is also a successful woman entrepreneur and want to provide all facilities to those women who are living in the village and don’t be allowed to go outside for jobs.

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