Pebble
Hathay Bunano
Our strength is the women we empower and the wonderful products they make
Hathay Bunano is a non-profit organisation started by Samantha in 2004 shortly after she moved her family to Bangladesh. Bangladesh is an amazing country full of vibrancy and energy. Its colourful and exciting, busy and chaotic. It's a place you really can't imagine until you have visited. It's also a place of incredible poverty and of people who are so strong and resilient regardless what life throws at them.
When moving to Bangladesh Samantha realised that morally it was necessary to put whatever limited skills she had to some use to try and help in a small way. Samantha had always loved crafts and the women of Bangladesh make such beautiful things as part of their culture and heritage so it wasn't such a great leap to teach some knitting and crochet skills and start to make toys that would likely have an eager customer base and could potentially bring sustainable and flexible employment to rural and disadvantaged women.
All Pebble products are made by Hathay Bunano. Hathay Bunano, meaning hand made or hand knitted in Bangla, is a non-profit fair trade organisation in Bangladesh. It's mission is to create fairly paid, good quality, flexible and local employment for rural women who are poor and often disadvantaged.
Hathay Bunano aims to provide employment which fits in with the rhythm of rural life and to prevent economic migration to the cities. It aims to keep families together and in particular to keep mummies with their babies and children by providing employment in a village setting close to their homes. It aims to address all the reasons why a woman might not be able to work and to support her so that she can work and can earn money to support her family.
When moving to Bangladesh Samantha realised that morally it was necessary to put whatever limited skills she had to some use to try and help in a small way. Samantha had always loved crafts and the women of Bangladesh make such beautiful things as part of their culture and heritage so it wasn't such a great leap to teach some knitting and crochet skills and start to make toys that would likely have an eager customer base and could potentially bring sustainable and flexible employment to rural and disadvantaged women.
All Pebble products are made by Hathay Bunano. Hathay Bunano, meaning hand made or hand knitted in Bangla, is a non-profit fair trade organisation in Bangladesh. It's mission is to create fairly paid, good quality, flexible and local employment for rural women who are poor and often disadvantaged.
Hathay Bunano aims to provide employment which fits in with the rhythm of rural life and to prevent economic migration to the cities. It aims to keep families together and in particular to keep mummies with their babies and children by providing employment in a village setting close to their homes. It aims to address all the reasons why a woman might not be able to work and to support her so that she can work and can earn money to support her family.