For those of you who have been following our blog, our first teddy bear shipment has finally arrived from Afghanistan! These bears are a part of Teddies For Two, the share-a-bear program that allows customers to buy two handmade teddy bears for just $28 - one bear is shipped to you, the customer, while the second bear is donated to a child living in a refugee camp or orphanage in Afghanistan. In many cases, your donated bear may be the first toy this child ever receives! (Wholesale pricing is also available, please contact One World Projects for details).
The bears are handmade by the Children and Women Education Fund (CWEF), a Kabul-based NGO that works with women living in Afghan refugee camps to create a marketable product. Besides earning a fair trade wage that helps them save for the day they can leave the camp, CWEF provides vocational training in sewing and embroidery, along with standard academic subjects. Each bear comes dressed in traditional Afghan vest and hat with button joints for movable arms and legs.
Working in Afghanistan has proven to be one of our biggest challenges to date, due in part to government corruption and to the resurgence of an increasingly-hostile Taliban. It's seeing projects like this one come to fruition that makes all of our efforts worthwhile. Please click here to read about our holiday delivery of teddy bears to an orphanage in Kabul.
Thanks again for your support of Afghan women and children, and for helping make Teddies For Two a reality.
Sincerely,
The Team at One World Projects
