Corporate Rebel Foundation and Jaipur Rugs Foundation have come together as a partner to provide a sustainable livelihood opportunity to the women who were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention is aimed at addressing the effects of COVID-19 and providing skill sets that have the potential to fetch sustainable livelihoods at the doorsteps of women in rural India. This intervention has the potential to develop the carpet value chain in a holistic and replicable manner to promote a viable non-farm livelihood option for the women who were unequally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The main objective of this project is to create non-farm livelihood/alternative livelihood opportunities for rural women who were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, through a skill development training program. Yet in the first phase which started on 1st September 2021, we selected 15 rural women and 16 women for the second phase which started on 1st February 2022, for the project implementation.

• Providing sustainable livelihood to women affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
• Market Linked livelihood at the doorstep to artisans.
• Employment generation through advanced skill development.
• Fair and timely wages and well-being.
• Development of Leadership skills especially in women
• Direct domestic and International market linkage