H/61 A Meera MargBani Park, Jaipur

302 016 INDIAph: +91 141 410 1636

info(at)meherashaw.comwww.meherashaw.com

Join Us!If you are interested in and passionate about development projects with textile/craft artisans, MSF welcomes you to join hands with us. You can support us by becoming a volunteer, mentor or trainer, or by promoting our artisan product and development programmes among your friends, colleagues and communities. As a volunteer or intern, we will provide free intensive training and project support to you as well as in depth practical experience in the textile craft and development sector. It is an excellent opportunity to help empower artisans. Join us in helping artisans to help themselves.

Mehera Shaw Foundation is a non-profit organization that catalyzes sustainable livelihood for artisans engaged in artisan’s fabric craft and textile sector value chain by empowering them to establish dignity and create community-based livelihood through enhancing their artisanal and business skills. Our goal is to develop trend-driven collections of artisan fabrics for sale and become known for the beauty of the fabric and textile surface design by using the artisan’s knowledge, traditional skills and experience.

MSF encourages sustainability and provides a dignified life to the artisans and people involved in craft fabric / textile value chain by assuring them of fair trade practices, ethical leadership, social values, mutual respect, trust, financial security and human touch. We aim to provide artisans with a voice and a platform for improving the quality of their lives and most importantly give them collective strength to combat exploitive practices of middle men by involving them in transparent business value chain.

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an integrated philosophyMehera Shaw Foundation works in an integrated and fully transparent manner with Mehera Shaw Textiles Pvt. Ltd., to help people help themselves without discrimination. Our philosophy is one of emancipation through work, skill building, dignity. The focus is on the artisan textile sector in India, in making viable, high-quality products for both the Indian and foreign market. We also emphasize cradle-to-cradle design and implementation, renewable energy, resource building and transparency throughout the value chain.

Mehera ShawTextiles Pvt. Ltd. a fair trade garment production company and high-end fashion label. Both MST and MSF together are an integrated, a vertical business which assures product quality, supply chain reliability, provides skills training for workers, and maintains fair trade standards of business, transparent communication, and ecological standards of production.

Mehera Shaw believes in integrating both our Private Limited company with our non-profit development foundation. We see an integrated, vertical business model as the strongest approach to offering a high-quality, value added product to both the high-end women’s market and the rising middle-class market. The value-added component is a fundamental strength--it is the human factor--jobs creation, skills building training for rural artisans, fair trade labour standards, supporting improved sustainability in garment production and reducing environmental waste.

Visit Us! Buy our products either retail or wholesale. We have a retail shop and wholesale showroom at our Jaipur location. We can also provide a list of available products for purchase via online sales.

projects and structureproduct development & skill building

Train and enhance skills among rural and urban artisans, especially women, creating employment by linking up with the textile/craft sector, developing specific upcycling projects, offering product design and QC training, and ongoing skills-based mentoring.

health &education

promote and support basic health and education requirements among artisan communities.

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improve drinking water, and water treatment within the textiles industry, promote improved environmental standards and solar energy products and sustainable organic agriculture practices

market/resource networkCradle-to-cradle sustainability: provide connections throughout the supply chain from artisan to end consumer.

Dr. Vijay Pagare, Director of Development, joins us with a doctorate in Public Administration, a M.S.W. from TISS, and more than a decade of experience as a director working with non-profits who support social enterprises; he has worked at every level from the field to policy and management.

Dr. Shari Keller, Managing Director of and designer for Mehera Shaw Textiles, has been working with disadvantaged artisan groups, sustainable garment production as well as issues of Fair Trade Trade and supply chain viability since 1997.

Shri Madanlal Bunkar, Director of Production for Mehera Shaw Textiles has more than a decade of experience working developing patterns and working with artisan textiles, local block prints and crafts of the Jaipur region.

"Helping Artisans to Help Themselves" --MSF Philosophy

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Even with good environmental and labour standards, garment production historically generates much scrap fabric.

Upcycling is the process of converting leftover materials into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value. Mehera Shaw Foundation intends to make productive use of this scrap through an ongoing upcycling project and artisan skill -building program. MSF trains artisans to make both beautiful and marketable, high quality textile products from production leftover scrap fabric such as those shown here.

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