CORR-The Jute Works is an organization of women handicraft producers established in 1973 to rehabilitate the war-widowed and war-affected poor rural women of Bangladesh. The aim was to provide these women with work at home.

CORR provides a means of income generation for these women through producing handicraft items made out of a locally available raw materials such as jute and other grasses, leaf, cane, bamboo, clay. In the last 29 years CORR-The Jute Works has helped to improve the socio-economic condition of poverty-stricken rural destitute women. Now the organization has 17 production areas in the country, all producing a diversified range of handmade jute, grass, leaf and terra-cotta products.

CORR's Main Aims

• To help the disadvantaged and neglected people of the society, especially women, in Bangladesh to achieve a better standard of living
• To promote and assist in the formation of handicraft producers as economically viable groups
• To organize rural destitute women and provide them with handicraft production skills as a supplementary source of income for their socio-economic development
• To promote thrift, self-help and democratic practices among the handicraft producer groups in the management of their affairs and to make them self-reliant by group action
• To provide facilities for training to the artisans and employees of the Trust by coordinating with other agencies both at home and abroad in the interest of Trust and its beneficiaries
• To organize and participate in national and international fairs, workshops and seminars on handicrafts
• To initiate welfare activities for poor people, such as housing, educational, recreational and health care facilities for better living conditions
• To establish charitable and development funds for well being of poor people irrespective of caste, creed and race.

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