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Fair Trade Producer Details
Mai Handicrafts aims to find work for neglected families by selling Vietnamese fair trade Handicraft products to local and export markets, to customers that care about a fair wage & working conditions. Mai is an income generating and educational project for disadvantaged family and its members, particularly women and children.

Mai works not only to provide viable employment and/or effective training but also aims to promote self-reliance among disadvantaged families and ethnic minority communities in Southern Vietnam.

Other than the necessary re-investing cost, the profits from sales of these fair trade handicrafts are used to fund various social work activities. In the development context, Mai is exploring a model of social development in which social service should lead to economic self-reliance. The people involved: Single parent families and other disadvantaged families and their children. Individual young adults starting off in life.