About Dastkar Andhra

About company

Dastkar Andhra promotes rural livelihoods by providing technical training for hand-loom weavers, and linking rural co-operative institutions to marketing networks in urban India. This ensures sustainable livelihoods for hand-loom weavers who face the threat of large scale migration into urban slums, and helps a generation of weavers to come out of poverty. Unlike government programs which treat hand-loom work as a welfare activity, or intermediaries and traders with unfair practices, Dastkar Andhra sets up equitable, sustainable, production marketing systems which allow weavers to live with self respect and dignity.