Ekibeki

Ensures fair living wage for producers

Discloses the community being impacted

Reduces the environmental impact

Focusses on women producers

Created using handcrafted methods

Reduces/Reuses/
Recycles resources

Made out of responsible materials

Uses portion of proceeds to give back to the community

Ekibeki is a social enterprise which works to preserve the rich craft heritage of India through awareness, design and market interventions.Their vision is to revive the folk arts and crafts of India to help generate better livelihoods for women and young artisans. Ekibeki has a wide range of contemporary eco-friendly home décor products, aesthetically designed jewellery, and handcrafted stationery supplies.

Purpose

The Ekibeki vision is to revive the folk arts and crafts of India and help generate livelihood for women and young artisans. The traditional Indian artisans with compromised opportunities and economically difficult conditions struggle to make their ends meet through stable incomes. This has resulted in the reduction of the creative workforce leading to dying ancient crafts, generation after generation. Ekibeki has identified some of the issues faced by the artisans. Through the hand-crafted products and other efforts, they strive to mitigate these issues and foster a better path to livelihood for artisans.

People

Ekibeki, largely works with the Copper enamel, Gond, Pattachitra and Chitrakathi artisans of India. Their aim is to create awareness about the cultural value of crafts in the urban markets and develop self-sustainable producer-owned clusters to empower women and youth artisans. They work with the artisans to develop contemporary products with designs to match the current market trends and provide technical inputs for ensuring consistently high product quality. They work towards building artisan capacity through relevant design, manufacturing or sales training.

Planet

All products at Ekibeki are made from eco-friendly materials. While they use high quality recycled paper to create our stationery supplies, Ekibeki also goes the extra mile to use surplus pieces from copperware manufacturers to create the range of Copper Enamel products, thereby helping other organizations reduce their carbon footprint.