CosmoQueen Foundation
Stichting CosmoQueen Foundation
Netherlands
About
Founded in 2005, CosmoQueen Foundation is a non-governmental organisation based in Netherlands working on employment & skills, poverty & hunger, gender equality.
CosmoQueen Foundation is a Dutch foundation that works on economic and social empowerment of disadvantaged women and men. It creates paid work and vocational training in the textile industry, and sells handmade products such as shawls, bags and accessories made by workshops in Jordan, Cambodia and Indonesia. Proceeds and donations fund wages, materials, machines and training for people in poverty, people with disabilities, and women in vulnerable situations. The foundation operates through partner organisations and workshops in those countries and sells its products through its webshop and third-party platforms.
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Werkcreatie project Al Nuzha
ViewEmployment & Skills · Jordan
Women in and around Amman embroider and sew shawls in a small workshop in Al Nuzha, earning a fair monthly wage and producing items for sale.
Werkcreatie project CHA
ViewEmployment & Skills · Cambodia
Employs disabled women and men, including landmine and polio survivors, to make towels, bags and beaded items through the Cambodian Handicraft Association for Landmine and Polio Disabled.
Werkcreatie project Friends
ViewEmployment & Skills · Cambodia
Works with Stichting Friends in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh to create paid work for people in poverty, including recycled-material shoppers and paper bags made by parents living on the street.
Opleidingsproject Pondok Kasih
ViewEmployment & Skills · Indonesia
A one-year textile vocational training for women living in slum areas and around rubbish dumps in Indonesia, with meals, transport and a certificate.
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Cambodian Handicraft Association for Landmine and Polio Disabled (CHA), Al Nuzha Society, Jordan River Foundation, Stichting Friends, NCDP, Stichting Pondok Kasih
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