Shopping for a Change® Partners with Pebble to Build New Preschools in Bangladesh

Part of Shopping for a Change’s mission is to fund community improvement projects throughout the world in our artisans’ communities with a focus on clean water, health-care and education. When you shop with us, your purchases this year will support two new preschools for artisan families working with our partner, Pebble Child. Pebble provides work for  6,800 disadvantaged women throughout 65 rural places throughout Bangladesh. Forty children, ages 3-6 whose mother’s handcraft Pebble’s adorable handknit toys and apparel, will be chosen to attend these two new schools in Sirajgonj and Mouliribazar, free of charge.

Primary school in Bangladesh begins for boys and girls when they are around six years old.The ability to attend one of our new preschools will help these bright young minds get a jump start on their ABCs and numbers, putting them ahead of their peers when they begin primary school. The preschools will be on site of where the mothers will be working, alleviating pressure for mothers who want to care of their children and also do a good job at work. At other workshop locations which already have preschools, the mothers’ income has grown because of the greater focus they mothers wield knowing their children are safe.

Your purchases at Shopping for a Change are invaluable because half of the net proceeds from sales during 2014 will fund this project. When you shop with us you provide employment to the artisans, will help fund these new preschools and will support the U.S. based nonprofit organization of your choice. Go Shopping for a Change.