Fair Trade: Member of Care & Fair

Education and health for families of weavers.

For the welfare of children - against child labor

LUXUS Carpet is an active member of Care & Fair, an organization that fights against child labour in the carpet industry and improves the living conditions of weavers and their families in the carpet producing regions of Pakistan, India and Nepal.

Care & Fair is an initiative of European carpet manufacturers, and represents a joint commitment by those responsible for this sector to responsible manufacturing and trade.

Care & Fair seeks to impress upon manufacturers, through cooperation and partnership, that buyers will no longer accept products made from child labour or other products produced under socially unacceptable conditions.

The Care & Fair association was founded in September 1994 and today has around 400 members in 21 importing countries and 3 producing countries.

Through this association, we wish to:

• Abolish child labour in Pakistan, India and Nepal
• Improving living conditions for weaver families
• Ensuring socially responsible production: members wanting goods to be produced under socially acceptable conditions
• Assume our social responsibility and adopt an exemplary conduct in the world

Currently, Care & Fair supports 13 schools, 7 adult education centres and 6 day care clinics in Pakistan, India and Nepal.

Care & Fair schools

'Wherever the social situation has improved and children have had a school they could attend, child labour has disappeared.'
- TERRE DES HOMMES -

'Not all child labour is bad, because day-to-day child co-operation is for many families a necessity to survive.'
- UNICEF -