The Millennium World Peace Summit

Description

Carpets for Communities (CfC) is an innovative income-generation and educational support project in Poi Pet, Cambodia that empowers families to break the cycle of poverty. We target families with children working on the Thai-Cambodian border, a hotbed for child-trafficking and sexual exploitation. We teach women of the families how to hand-hook carpets, provide them with carpet-making equipment and supplies, and offer a secure sales channel for their finished products. The living wages that the women earn making carpets empowers them to relieve their children of dangerous work on the border and send them to school.