Krochet Kids International reimagines empowerment with hook and stitch

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In Uganda and Peru, a team of lifelong friends is turning a love of crocheting into jobs for impoverished women.Krochet Kids International trains and employs women in both countries to craft contemporary apparel for sale in the United States. Global Envision recently talked with Adam Thomson, the nonprofit’s vice president of impact.Krochet Kids’ model creates sustainable jobs by teaching textile skills like crochet or knitting, and attempts to help women permanently escape poverty through additional business training and mentoring. Part of what sets Krochet Kids apart, according to Thomson, is a rigorous “measurement and evaluation system” to quantify and better understand the impact of the organization’s work. The Krochet Kids team sees this analysis as so fundamental that they wanted Thomson’s title to reflect it….


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