In the villages around Bhadohi in the Indian federal state of Uttar Pradesh, the carpet workers lack medical care. Six carpet producers have agreed to pay for the doctor's visits of the workers together with Label STEP. Now the project ought to be expanded by the aspects of security in the workplace and sensitising the workers for risks of accidents and injuries – because precaution is even better than cure... More

In Nepal the weavers mostly live with their families on the manufacture areas where they work also. The bigger children attend state schools during the day. However, the little ones often spend their days between the looms. Label STEP founded day-care centres together with the carpet producers. The little children are supposed to be able to do their first steps in an environment appropriate for children and protected from wool dust and dangerous tools... More

In the remote villages of the so-called Indian carpet belt there is not enough medical care. Label STEP has begun to change this together with project partners in three regions: Now mobile medical practices come to the villages regularly and therefore secure medical care for thousands of people... More

The Nepalese educational system is demanding, above all after elementary school. The more strict the curriculum gets, the more it begins to carry weight, that the children from carpet weaver families are underprivileged: Their parents cannot employ private assignment help like the better-off families. To preserve these children from a premature school drop-out, Label STEP has brought to life an evening school... More

The fact that children work at a loom is especially frequent in the region around the city of Agra in the North of India. Since 2005 Label STEP has installed evening schools in different villages with a partner organisation, so that the children yet again have an educational opportunity in the evening. Now the successful running of a school ought to be maintained with the help of Label STEP for another year... More

In Sheihkupura, a district of the Pakistani province of Punjab, Label STEP finances the wages of teachers in 50 schools. These give numerous children of carpet weavers from the region the chance to go to school... More

The school founded in 2001 is situated in the middle of Jorpati, a centre of the carpet industry in Kathmandu. Almost all children who are schooled here come from carpet weaver families. Due to the support of Label STEP the school has enough place and infrastructure to offer a secure basic education to 7'000 children in an inspiring environment today... More

Carpets have always been woven in the villages of the High Atlas in the South of Morocco. However, there is hardly any medical care in this remote region. Together with a local carpet producer Label STEP makes regular visits of a doctor possible in these mountain villages: She is supposed to examine and help, but also inform... More

The children from carpet weaver families learn the traditional art craft at home from their parents. Together with the Human Development Center (HDC) Label STEP supports that school education is not missed out on... More