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Uplifting

Carpet Weaving Community

BACKGROUND:

Country: Pakistan

Total weaving units: 300

Families Involves: Livelihood of 1200 families depends on this small scale

carpet industry

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System prevailing and issues attached with the industry:

1. Middle man hires skilled persons on daily wages and supply them the raw material of carpet

2. Middle man collect the product and sale it in markets

3. Skilled people don’t have resources to purchase raw material and kitchen items during the

period of carpet making

4. Skilled labor are paid only 200-300 per day against their valuable skill

5. It is very less amount and now the skilled people are searching for alternate source of income

6. Skilled person is earning only 5-6 thousand per month which is not sufficient against his/her

needs and skill

7. Middle man is exploiting them

8. Skilled people also lacking management skills, research and access to market

9. Child labor is observed

10. Women are also working there with unlimited working hours so their health is poor

11. Skilled workers also facing breathing issues as no protection

12. No social security

13. Absence and drop out issue about school going children

14. A conventional and valuable industry under threat

15. Unemployed youth

16. A big issue is that Skill will die

Expected Role of NGO:

The Organization will support community in following ways;

1. Formation and strengthening of Community Association

2. Improve the management skills of the Managing body (Community Association) and Market

Linkages.

3. Making business more profitable to them

4. The NGO will connect to Community Association with financial institutions who provides

them finance as per Business requirement.

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6. Managing omen working hours to improve their health and share her burden

7. Reduce child labor in the industry

8. Improve literacy rate among the community involved with the target industry

9. Reduce dropout and absenteeism in schools among children of the workers

10. Make the industry attractive for youth to remove unemployment

11. Efforts to establish a model area that will be middleman free

PLANNED STEPS:

To overcome the issues and improve the living standard of concerned community, NGO will take

following steps of ensuring stability and sustainability of the industry.

Step-1: The NGO will identify potential artisan from the above mentioned selected area named

“UC Kotla Haji Shah, district Layyah”.

Step-2: The NGO will organize the target community.

Step-3: The NGO will train to selected communityon Basic Business Concepts.

Step-4: The NGO will form an organizing body (Community Association) which will manage

the small Business and the NGO will support as an overall supervisor of the business.

Community Association will be based on different sections.

1. Marketing and procurement section:

The section will;

1. Look after the all aspects of marketing.

2. Finalize the new design which has market demand locally and internationally,

3. Identify the whole sale markets for purchasing the raw material which will be used in

making carpets,

4. Identify and finalize the markets and individual customers from the local and international

market, whose can purchase the finish goods,

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6. Collect orders of carpets for their business.

2. Finance & accounts Section: This section will manage all aspects of finance and accounts like

as handling the daily cash management, manage and record the cash which will provide to

skilled laborer for daily home needs and they also develop the business budgeting.

3. Human resource management & admin section: This section will manage all human

resources which will be involve in business like experts artisans, hiring, attendance manage,

human resource policy making and implantation, Mange all admin responsibilities in

business, apply recreation policies for refreshment of all workers, mange the salaries/wages of

employees and profit sharing management for artisans.

4. Social services management section: This will manage all social activities and social units like

health care unit, business education unit, adult literacy unit and school for children of artisans. This

Section will also manage the environmental awareness program in the same area. This section will take

actions to remove child labour.

Step-5 The NGO will engage the local administrative and facilitator department of the

government including, health department, small & medium enterprise development

authority (SMEDA), social security department, university and collages of fine arts and

social welfare department.

Step-6 The NGO will support to the business with funds or initial investment and they will

return to organization from the business income which will be generating by the finish

goods.

Step-7 The NGO will guide and support the Community Association to establish display

centers in big cities of Pakistan like Karachi, Multan, Lahore, Islam Abad, and Peshawar

etc

Step-8 The NGO will also guide and support the Community Association to promote the work

locally and internationally using social media, website, promotional material,

newsletter, print and electronic media.

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The NGO will also guide and support the Community Association to manage

working units in two different modes;

Mode-1 Those artisans who have working places at their homes, they work there. The NGO will

re-organize their work stations according to the organizational standard and give to

name “Home Based Working Unit)

Mode-2 Those Artisans who have not a working place in their home, NGO will establish “Model

Working Center”. This model center will be equipped with all facilities. Through this

model unit, the organization will provide the training to artisan for skills enhancement

and quality management as per national or international standards. On these standard

center youth will also be given training about this skills and promote self employment

in the area.

EXPECTED OUTCOME:

1. Handsome Increased in income of all Artisan’s families

2. Sustained livelihood

3. At the end of the project, the Community will be organized and have well established system

4. Improved living standard

5. Community with good health

6. Education status improved

7. Child labor removed

8. Women empowerment

9. Youth employed

10. Important industry revived

11. National asset saved

12. Goodwill and revenue for the country

EXIT PLAN: At the end of the project the NGO will leave the area and the Managing Body

(Community Association) will manage the all business independently

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Zafar Iqbal

Executive Director

The NGO World-Foundation

20-G, Shah Rukne Alam Colony Multan-Pakistan

Email: zafar.tnw@gmail.com Cell: +92-300-6718562

www.thengoworld.org