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Label STEP India held eye camps in May 2025, offering free eye tests and glasses to 355 weavers and their families. Part of STEP’s wider health programs, the camps aim to support artisan well-being and fair working conditions in India’s carpet industry.

India is a key hub for handmade rugs. From Bhadohi to Jaipur, STEP works closely with dozens of certified Fair Trade Partners around the world and their local producers to verify fair wages, ethical production, and sustainable practices—preserving the art of rug making for future generations.

Label STEP enacts its holistic, solutions-based approach to fair trade through the promotion of social security benefits for the artisans of India. According to a 2021 report by the International Labour Organization, “only 47 per cent of the global population are effectively covered by at least one social protection

Label STEP has implemented preventative healthcare services across India and Pakistan to give the countries’ handmade carpet weavers access to information and recommendations that support their well-being – both now and in the future. Individual Healthcare is a Global Issue Access to healthcare is not only an individual issue,