Eat Well Produce Sacks

Eat Well Produce Sacks

$17.00
$17.00
$19.99
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The Eat Well Produce Sacks are a must have for zero‒waste grocery shopping! This set of one large and one small sack is handcrafted by makers working with Saidpur Enterprises in Bangladesh, which provides sustainable jobs for women who lack employment opportunities.

  • Cotton, wood
  • Machine washable
  • Screen‒printed message on small bag reads, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Screen‒printed message on large bag reads, “buy fresh, buy local.”
  • Small bag: 8Wx10H inches, Large Bag: 10Wx12H inches
  • Set of 2 bags (1 large and 1 small)
  • Handcrafted in Bangladesh

    Saidpur Enterprises comprises two groups: Action Bag Handicrafts and Eastern Screen Printers. Its Action Bag subsidiary employs women artisans who make a variety of jute products. Some have husbands who are underemployed; others are widowed. Action Bag provides literacy classes, and training on nutrition, women's legal rights, educational awareness and finance. Following the 1971 war that established Bangladesh, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) started clinics and nutrition centers in Saidpur to help address food shortages and disease. In 1976 MCC began a program to help mothers of malnourished children coming to its nutrition center. This temporary employment program became Action Bag Handicrafts, and now supports artisans selling for the fair trade export market.