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Prokritee

Prokritee (meaning "nature" in Bangla) is a service based agency that provides managerial, product design and development and marketing assistance to organizations in Bangladesh. Prokritee manages 8 Handicraft Enterprises and helps other groups to sell their products in local and foreign markets upholding Fair Trade standards.

Prokritee and its 8 enterprises provide jobs for poor rural women. The women who work for the enterprises are widows, divorcees or head-of-households with little or no income. By providing jobs for women, Prokritee is able to improve the women's standard of living and help them send their children to school. Now they are able to look at the future with hope and happiness, instead of poverty and despair.



Prokritee's Goals

A. Income-Generating Projects
Creating, promoting and assisting income-generating projects that:

• are operated and managed to benefit the producers

• adhere to good safety and environmental standards

• are or have the potential to become self reliant

B. Women's Employment
Hiring Women employees who:

• are head-of-households (widows, divorcees, or separated)

• have little, if any income

• are landless with few or no assets

• are primarily rural

C. Skills Development
Providing training to increase the skills of personnel within income-generating enterprises.

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