Craft-based training is revolutionizing rural India by equipping artisans, especially women, with practical, income-generating skills like crochet and macramé. This blog explores how Rural Handmade’s people-first training model empowers communities, nurtures entrepreneurship, and creates sustainable livelihoods, offering a replicable roadmap for NGOs, CSR teams, and government-led initiatives.

Business Management | Resources
What is E-commerce packaging? E-commerce packaging, in general, refers to the packing used to distribute goods to customers who made online purchases. In a practical sense, it refers to packaging that has passed rigorous simulation tests to see whether it can resist the normal motions and shipping procedures. It is how you safeguard your goods, build your brand, and manage transportation expenses. The impulse to convert to alternative and sustainable packaging materials arises from the fact that the environmental impact of present packaging materials is extremely hazardous.
Business Management | Resources
Are you looking for ways to write an excellent grant application that can impress the assessors? The blog will guide you through the ways of writing such an appealing application and will take you through the dos and don'ts in such a proposal. Grant application is a proposal of procuring funds for a project with a defined deliverable or outcome.
Business Management | Resources
Are you a handmade business struggling to create online visibility in the presence of big eCommerce brands? Do you want to learn how video capturing and editing work? Do you want to know more about how YouTube marketing works but get the same information on optimising SEO everywhere? If yes, then this blog is for you. It delves into why some YouTube channels get millions of views on their videos even when the content is not providing any knowledge or value addition to viewers. Later, we discuss some ways to increase the visibility of your handmade business’s page on YouTube using simple video-making techniques and hacks for increasing views as well as likes and subscriptions. Also, we’ll talk about tools and techniques for video capturing and editing.
Trends | Shop By Values
Are you an entrepreneur looking for the latest trends in homeware to stock up and get an edge over your competitors? Or are you an interior designer searching for brand new homeware designs in the market? Or are you an aspirational homemaker looking to equip your house with the trendiest furniture before that party you host? Or the popular hotel in town with an undying appetite for trendy crockery? Well, fret not. We’ve got you covered!
Sustainability | Environmental
Introduction to creative manufacturing of the jewelry sector in Africa Africa, also called the “mother continent” (because it is the oldest inhabited continent on earth) has a large quantity of natural resources and is ranked one of the richest continents in the World in terms of natural resources. During the scramble for Africa in the 19th century, many natural resources such as coal,iron,oil,cotton,rubber and copper were discovered in Africa, only rubber was primarily a colonial product and four-fifths of the world’s supply was derived in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Africa holds about 30% of the World's mineral reserve.
Community | People
Microfinance for Small Businesses MFIs are financial companies that provide small loans to people who do not have any access to banking facilities. This stands as an essential part of the innovative manufacturing and handmade businesses as they usually don’t have access to such facilities. In this report, we would look at the various methods by which such a business can generate funds from microfinance, with a particular focus on south-eastern Asia. Microfinance services are provided to unemployed or low-income individuals because most of those trapped in poverty, or who have limited financial resources, do not have enough income to do business with traditional financial institutions.


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