Anchal artisan Santu

Meet Your Didi: Santu

On our most recent trip to India, we had the opportunity to visit with artisan Santu and learn more about the true impact of her artisan sponsorship.
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Anchal artisan Firoza

Meet Your Didi: Firoza

We are so incredibly proud and impressed by Firoza’s dedication and strength; she has become a true leader in the Anchal community despite tremendous challenges.
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Anchal Artisan Nazia

Meet Your Didi: Nazia's Journey to Empowerment

Despite adversity, Nazia has been with the Anchal team and family  for over 5 years, and has become a natural leader in her Project Assistant role.
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Design plans and compositional patterns from the narrative collection

A Look Behind the Didi Design

Each design in The Narrative Collection was inspired by a photo and translated into a quilt's compositional pattern. This week, we are taking a closer look at the didi design.

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Shawl from Anchal's Narrative collection being modeled in front of a black brick wall

Inside The Process: The Narrative Collection

We invite you to take a look behind the process of creating our newest collection. 
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Colleen Clines and Anchal artisans at a workshop in India

Your Dollars at Work: Road to India Fundraiser

See all the ways your generous Road to India donations fundraiser were put to use during our recent trip.
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Women walking down the street in various colorful saris

Road to India 2016!

It’s hard to believe we are just a few days away from arriving in India for our annual trip.
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Anchal artisans gathered together smiling and empowered.

3 Ways Anchal Creates Long-term Change

See what steps we take here at Anchal to promote long term change for the Artisans and their futures.
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Pieces fabric, sketches and materials that inspire that help guide the innovate processes at Anchal

6 Tips to Guide Your Innovation Process

Here at Anchal, we believe that each person is a creator capable of designing solutions and new methods that will forever change the world we live in. During this month's Connecting Things Lou, we provided 6 helpful tips we use to guide us through the innovation process:
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Anchal artisan sewing an intricate pattern into a teal fabric

4 Reasons Anchal Project is Proud to Celebrate World Fair Trade Day

Today is World Fair Trade Day. For Anchal, fair trade is about safe and empowering working conditions as well as developing transparent and accountable relationships with our artisans, staff and customers.

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Anchal Artisan Mamta, and her children

Anything Is Possible

Mamta is determined to finish high school and set an example for her children.
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Anchal artisan Maya and her children

Mothers Are Family Glue

Like many Anchal artisans, and mothers around the world, for that matter, Maya is the glue of her family. She added, “if there are problems, big or small, I can stay positive, stay focused and find a solution.”
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