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Guiding Star Christmas Card

Send your holiday greetings with this impactful yet simply designed card. Lovingly crafted on handmade paper using wheat straw, this rectangular card depicts a timeless journey of faith under the watchful gaze of a celestial guide. The ideal way to share the enduring promise and message of hope the season holds. Includes one envelope and one gold seal. Handcrafted by artisans with Corr–The Jute Works, a nonprofit handicraft marketing trust and exporter based in Dhaka, Bangladesh that represents more than 4,000 rural women artisans in 154 workshops.

HANDCRAFTED IN BANGLADESH

  • Materials: Handmade paper, wheat straw
  • Measures: 5.5"W x 3.5"H
  • Colors: Light tan with natural fibers, gold, cream
  • Notes: Ten Thousand Villages logo is printed on back

SKU: 6601920

THE MAKERS

CORR stands for Christian Organization for Relief and Rehabilitation. Corr–The Jute Works is a women’s nonprofit handicraft marketing trust and exporter of quality handicrafts. Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, The Jute Works represents more than 4,000 rural women artisans in 154 workshops. The Jute Works strives to empower rural women through handicraft production, animal husbandry and small job creation projects. The group works with women regardless of caste, creed and race. It provides job training, develops leadership skills and generates awareness of the women’s plight. It promotes thrift, self–help and democratic practice among the women’s handicraft groups. Members share ownership, participate in decision-making and receive the benefits of surplus production. The Jute Works is one of Bangladesh’s largest exporter of handicrafts. Ten Thousand Villages has purchased products from The Jute Works since 1974.
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