At Hand & Cloth Ltd, our social enterprise in Bangladesh, women gain job skills, develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and experience Biblical values lived out. Working together, the women stitch kantha, a traditional two-sided blanket made from repurposed vintage sari cloth. Kantha has been a quiet form of self-expression for women in Bangladesh for centuries.
For Hand & Cloth, kantha is also a means to heal…
our vision
Old Testament writers used the Hebrew word רפא (rapha) to refer to healing, especially divine healing. More literally, rapha means to sew together or to stitch. And so our name, Hand and Cloth, is an image not only of the creative work these women are doing, but also of the creative, healing work God is doing in their lives. As each product is handmade by a woman, our hope is that she would come to know that she is handmade by God.
our partners
CUP (Children’s Uplift Programme), a project of Society for International Ministries, works with mothers coming out of the trade, breaking cycles for their children, and provides holistic care to girls and mothers who are at high risk of trafficking.
