GoodWeave works to stop child labor in global supply chains. Permanently.
For over 25 years, GoodWeave has pioneered and innovated a system that harnesses market power through its work with brands and producers. Most recently, the organization has expanded into apparel, home textiles, fashion jewelry, bricks, and tea where its reach and impact continue to grow. This impact goes beyond numbers as GoodWeave has positively influenced societal norms and corporate practices to eliminate child labor.
GoodWeave system combines the power of consumers and businesses to ignite the engine of social change. In partnership with brands, we’re creating a market for goods made without child labor by preventing and rescuing children from lives of bondage, and by distinguishing select products with the GoodWeave label.
GoodWeave establishes clear and rigorous standards, and we verify compliance by regularly mapping and inspecting factories, worksites and facilities all the way down to cottage industry and individual homes. These inspections—which are random, unannounced, and frequent—lead us to exploited children and serve as a powerful deterrent to bad labor practices.
GoodWeave’s social programs serve victims of child labor. Over the years, they have started early childhood education centers, coordinated home schooling, provided school sponsorship, and made a second home for children who desperately needed one.
They want to improve Conditions for All Workers. Addressing child labor effectively requires more than simply prohibiting the practice as a matter of law, policy or standard. One important part of the equation is ensuring that adult workers are better compensated and better treated within their workplaces.
