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The Impact
The main goals of the Council of Weavers endeavour can be broadly understood in two categories.
In the community aspect, the Council of Weavers is a champion
for the creation of a practical and sustainable model of local enterprise, that will provide for the
livelihood of individuals, families and communities. In this, the Council of Weavers emphasises
empowering women and their work, and through this, protecting and enhancing their status in society.
In the same way, artistic and creative skills also become better appreciated as practical and powerful
knowledge.
This serves holistically to energise the community in a virtuous cycle that might lead to secondary
causes such as education, healthcare and infrastructure. Eventually it would benefit surrounding
communities, inviting them into enterprise, and create a new wealth of opportunities for the younger
generation.
In the cultural aspect, the Council of Weavers enters into
partnerships that will enable the cultural preservation of precious traditional weaving skills,
evolved over hundreds of years. A diminishing lineage may be reinvigorated through fruitful enterprise
that once again places the art of weaving right back into the daily life of an individual. This
empowers each weaver, whether young or old, to partake in a living tradition that helps to create
the sense of time and place and culture of the community. The younger generation will be invited
to learn its artistry and reinvent the tradition. In this sense, the work of the Council of Weavers
is in building healthy, happy communities.
On the larger scale, the Council of Weavers seeks to promote a greater international awareness and
empathy to the situation in Southeast Asia. Through the appreciation and enjoyment of the exquisite
works, people will come to understand the beauty that is also to be found in the poorest of conditions. Through
these works we wish that people may come together in a compassionate celebration of beauty and
creativity.
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"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead
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