Mongolia Handcraft Business for Women

Priority Project – 4-47403-46-87

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country, one-third the size of the United States. Its 2.5 million people have an average annual income of $390 and suffer from 30 to 40 percent unemployment.

To address the economic plight of Mongolians and promote the dignity that comes from work, a handcrafts business, Tabitha, has been started. It employs 60 people from both local churches and the wider community.

The business began by importing cross-stitch materials and marketing the completed projects through missionaries on home assignment tours.

Our aim is to make this business sustainable by encouraging wider use of locally available materials and ethnic designs and marketing the finished product to tourists in Mongolia and to churches in the U.S.

Your gift will help us reach our project funding goal of $10,000.