UNHCR’s Private Sector Fundraising writes about WEAVE

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“UNHCR’s Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) is one of WEAVE's largest customers”, said Gaela Roudy-Fraser, the Coordinator of our Self-reliance lab, who has recently paid a visit to WEAVE’s showroom in Mae Sot, some 500 km north-west of Bangkok. In 2011, the PSFR team in Thailand brokered with WEAVE the first contract for the production of premiums – promotional items that individuals receive as gifts upon making financial donations to UNHCR.

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Fair Trade Christmas Event

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On December 14, 2013, Lanna Cafe, Thai Tribal Crafts Fair Trade, Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment and Wongwian, members of the Northern Thailand Fair Trade Network and are working towards poverty alleviation organized a 1-day Christmas event. The collective activity was intended to benefit their local partners, the economically disadvantaged hill tribe and refugee women men and communities of artisans in the rural areas of Northern Thailand.

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