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Project MUSKAN, expanded in its second year.
GoodWeave now supports 8 NFE Centre in Bhadohi as part of their project MUSKAN. The project started in 2010 with 3 NFE Centre aiming to provide non-formal education to underprivileged kids from Carpet weaving communities. seeing the overwhelming response from weaving community, GoodWeave decided to expand the program & added 5 new NFE Centre in the carpet district.
 
GoodWeave's Project 'Building Healthy Communities' initiated in Panipat.
Health Camps & Awareness workshops are being organized in GoodWeave Licensee factories in Panipat from December 2010 onwards. The project will benefit families of over 2000 workers working in GoodWeave licensee supply chain.

Licensing & Certification

 
Licensing 
Any registered carpet exporter or producer supplying an officially licensed GoodWeave Importer is eligible to apply for the License.
 
The potential Licensee is required to furnish some mandatory information & documents along with a comlpleted application form. On recipet of necessary documents, an initial inspection of supplier’s facilities is conducted by GoodWeave.
On verification of compliance with the Certification Standard, a license agreement is signed between GoodWeave and the Licensee.

Inspections

In India, GoodWeave has a dedicated in-house team of inspectors who have vast experience in inspections as well as Child rescue work. In addition to this, GoodWeave also works in collaboration with the third party monitors, LevelWorks  for implementing, and executing the GoodWeave certification inspection process.
Unannounced Random inspections are carried out by a team of trained inspectors in the looms & factories of Licensee exporters
  • To ensure compliance to the GoodWeave certification standard.
  • To determine if illegal child labor is being used by a supplier.
  • To gather specific information about general workplace conditions.
  • Facilitate the rescue of identified illegal child labourers (If any).
The Licensee’s full production capacity is regularly and randomly inspected for illegal child labour with surprise visits by GoodWeave staff and/or its approved inspectors. The Licensee is expected to declare its complete list of Level 2 and Level 3 suppliers include processing, weaving, dyeing and washing operations with the expectation that any and all facilities will be inspected.
 
Labelling
GoodWeave Licensees are eligible to affix the GoodWeave label to their carpets signifying they have been produced in an environment verified free of illegal child labour in accordance with GoodWeave’s inspection and monitoring program
 
Each labelled rug is individually numbered, enabling its origin to be traced back to the loom where it was produced. This also helps to prevent counterfeit labelling.