Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) Foundation

Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) Foundation is rated 3 out of 5 in the category nonprofit organization management. Read and write reviews about Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) Foundation. WEAVE Foundation is a non-profit women’s organization working to advance the status and dignity of displaced and disadvantaged women in Thailand, on the Thai-Burma border and inside Burma. This is done through providing interventions such as educational and economic empowerment programs. It carries out work in partnership with various Burmese ethnic women’s groups in Thailand and other bordering countries of Burma including China and India. WEAVE affirms that by encouraging the leadership of women and the development of their status their family and community benefits. Since the onset of WEAVE’s establishment in 1990, income generation has been strongly identified as one of the core focus of the organization in order to address safe income for refugee and poor women and their families. To increase market access WEAVE enrolled as a member of the Fair Trade Federation US in 1997. Recognizing the need to belong to a bigger network of fair traders– suppliers and producers and as an international fair trader in the South, WEAVE’s membership was moved to the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) both Global and Asia in 2010. Moreover, opportunities for wider expansion led us to restructure/reform the original Income Generation Project into a Social Enterprise and to register in Thailand to gain a legal business entity that caters the production and marketing work of WEAVE. In 2012, WEAVE's marketing arm acquired official registration under the name WEAVE Fair Trade Co.Ltd.