Asha Handicrafts is a brand with a hope for artisans from India, where ideas are handcrafted into beautiful and luxurious lifestyle products. Founded in 1975, they're a fair trade certified organization (World Fair Trade Organization, Netherlands & Fair Trade Forum India) working With more than 800 artisans from across the country.

Their vision and mission is to provide marketing support to their artisans through a sustainable global market and help them to preserve the art and craft of India. As a social enterprise, all the profits are reinvested back into the social welfare of artisans and their families.

Asha Handicrafts provides fair trade importers throughout the world with products such as jewelry, ethically sourced horn & bone, wood, ceramics, textiles and various handmade decorative products from all over the country. This versatile range of products is produced by artisan groups that have been working with Asha Handicrafts for more than 25 years.

Their philosophy is simple - produce fantastic, ethically sourced yet commercial products to maximize sales while maximizing benefits to their artisans and customers.

Their inspirations are the artisans whose skilled hands have given life to their ideas & crafted their designs into beautiful products.

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Since its establishment in 1975, Asha Handicrafts Association has given marketing support to various groups of small producers and craftsmen co-operatives. Asha fosters Fair Trade practices to aid marginalized and small scale handicraft producers.

It is a single organization having two distinct divisions: one is engaged in trading and another is their resource center that oversees welfare programs, training activities as well as crafts promotion and producer development. By purchasing directly from artisan communities and offering advance payments on orders, Asha increases the income levels of those artisan communities and prevents the accumulation of long-term debts.

Asha Handicrafts gives the artisans an opportunity to improve their living standards and continue the tradition of Indian crafts. Asha also provides training and teaching facilities, establishing new local groups of craftsmen.

Your new Asha Handicraft treasure will be produced locally, ethically and as sustainably as possible by Fair Trade artisans in India.

ASHA RESOURCE CENTRE (ARC)

The Asha Handicrafts Resource Centre aspires to effectively use local resources for the development of artisans, producers and staff of Asha Handicrafts Association, making a meaningful impact on the lives of artisans and their families through fair trade practices and social welfare programs.

CAPACITY BUILDING THROUGH TRAININGS

Asha runs a range of training sessions for its artisans, staff and community members:

• Producer training to export market scenarios, current designs & trends, quality & legal requirements for exporting handicrafts, importance of timely delivery, GST requirements & finance

• Training for Welfare Workers on effectiveness in carrying out Business as well Social & fair Trade Activities

• Artisan Trainings conducted on Fair Trade awareness.

• Workshops on leadership, quality products and timely delivery

HEALTH IS WEALTH

• Free medical consultation & medicine to artisans and their families

• Work place safety & Improved working conditions

EDUCATION FOR ALL

• Funds received amounting to US$ 500 were utilized to provide school uniforms, books, and bags & shoes to 23 children from Jaipur & Sarai Tarin

• Supporting Education of 100 artisans children

• Solar lanterns to help artisans in rural households enable children to study through India's regular power outages

• Computer education & training to artisans and community children

•  Tuition projects helping artisan and community children to stay in school & complete their education

BEYOND BUSINESS

• Pankaj Kumar from Agra once studied in Asha's E-academy project, but today he teaches young children at the E-academy and runs the family handicraft business (2nd generation)

• Provided laptops that enable producers to effectively manage correspondence for order dispatches

Free delivery to the continental USA

Asha Handicrafts treasures ship free to the United States.

Shipping 1-3 Days After You Place An Order

Asha Handicrafts ships their treasure 1-3 days (on average) after receiving orders.

Asha Handicraft treasures ship domestically in the continental USA via USPS.

Yes, all Asha Handicrafts packages to the continental USA will be shipped with tracking automatically included.

Asha Handicrafts ship treasure from their warehouse in the United States 1-3 days after receiving an order.

Delivery times in the continental USA range between 1-3 days (on average) after shipping.

So you can expect your treasure to arrive 2-6 days after you place an order.

We plant a tree with every item purchased on our store. Purchase 3 Asha Handicrafts treasures & we'll plant 3 trees — offsetting carbon from shipping by reforesting lands with native flora, not quick grow tree farms.

We do this with the help of Ecologi & The Eden Reforestation Project. They partner with villages committed to restoring their forests. Hiring and training local villagers to plant new trees.

They only plant native tree species. And the villages protect their new forests because they have a vested interest in them. See more here.

Change Of Heart?

• You're welcome to return or exchange any items in your order — open a return request within 15 days of delivery

• All returned items must be received in their original condition & packaging within 30 days of delivery

• We do not pay for return shipping if you have a change of heart

• We strongly advise returning your order with tracking as we can't be responsible for items that go missing before they reach us

• We will process all returns within 7 days of receiving them

• Hate waiting? Activate your exchange/store credit within 24hr after your return/refund is approved

• We do not accept returns/exchanges of sale items

• Original delivery costs are non-refundable