Rural Handicrafts Company

Rural Handicrafts Company is an entrepreneurial venture that started out as a classroom presentation of a business plan in July 2008. Today, we are a Tampa, Fl, based company that works with people in tribal India and provides them with skills and tools to find jobs and increase their standard of living.
Through our artists in tribal India, we have created products that are sustainable and eco friendly. We work with bamboo, terra cotta (clay) and organic fabrics like jute, hemp and organic cotton. Our company practices and strongly supports fair trade practices and we are committed to ensuring our artists get a fair wage and have safe working conditions. We provide employment opportunities for women who would not be able to find work otherwise. We encourage women to take up leadership roles within the company and we provide a platform for the socio-economic transformation of women within a society that has held back its women and has suppressed them for centuries. Rural Handicrafts Company is impacting the lives of real people and we invite you to be part of this movement that is bringing transformations through innovations in rural communities around the world.