MISSION.
Fight root causes of poverty and hunger in Rwanda’s poorest communities and focus on working with poor and surviving women of Rwanda giving them skills equipped with proper resources.
VISION
We believe in improving livelihoods and well being of disadvantaged producers by linking and promoting fair trade and create jobs and improve the quality of life.
GOALS
To create a market that values the artisans who make the products we use by creating:
1. Creating opportunities for economically disadvantaged producers.
2. Transparency and accountability and capacity building:
To set an example of partnership in Fair Trade through transparency and respect.
3.Encourages better environmental practices and the application of responsible methods of production.
4.Capacity building by developing producers independence ,continuity relationships and improving their access to new markets.
The Thousand Hills is the project of an ambitious and caring Rwandans. Our dream is to provide Rwanda artisans the ability to sell their wares here in North America.Among the products include incredible, gracefully patterned hand-woven baskets that are made by the courageous suffering widows of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. These baskets are woven by master weavers, and symbolize a return to the peace of the past. These baskets are a genuine, handmade product of Rwanda, and are created by the hands of gifted women.
Our Mission is to “stimulate a better quality of life” and to reflect our commitment to the company’s founding philosophy that people are the key to our success. We are a business friendly environment. We provide high-quality hand made products, employment to genocide survivors and help to introduce their products to new markets.
Ladies Weaving Baskets In Rwanda
In 2007 our company began making baskets to sell locally. Later more than 250 women were trained in bead assembling and during that period they produced 4500 bracelets. These bracelets were sold in international markets and the profit was used to train more Rwandans to gain skills in basket making and jewelery production.
The initial project provided employment to genocide survivors and to ladies with HIV from different groups in Rwanda.
We continue our work from Canada, providing our friends in our homeland the opportunity to work for a fair wage, and to further their knowledge and abilities.
