D - Dorcas Designs provides
O - Opportunities
R - Regain Confidence
C - Change Lifestyle
A - Access to return to society
S - Strengthen Skill Development
Dorcas Design is a non-profit organization developed by a group of skilled, disabled women in South China, who have overcome stigma and poverty. All profit will be used to help reach more women in need.
Their mission is to assist physically and economically disabled women,
including orphans and widows and their families to have equal
development and work opportunities to enable them to participate more
fully in society.
Their Activities:
Learn income generating skills.
Design and sew marketable items.
Participate in group activities that enhance growth and personal development.
Individual Counseling for special needs.
Their Goals:
Develop a self sustaining micro enterprise.
Enable women to regain self esteem and confidence.
They started off as a leprosy group however, some of the people in the group have found self sufficiency and been re-introduced into society, gotten married and moved on. There are now 3 leprosy affected people who are mentoring/teaching other types of disabled people how to sew and who are now on their way to self sufficiency!
Your purchase of Dorcas Design products will help the physically disabled to earn a livelihood for their families through their sewing and quilting skills. Some of the products they make are beautiful brocade quilts, neck pillows, aprons, totes, diaper bags, pouches and bible bags. We also purchase freshwater pearls in their local marketplace to further support their micro-enterprise. Although they do not make this pearl jewelry, through the sale of the pearl jewelry, we are able to help not only another local artisan but the remainder of the proceeds are re-invested back into dorcas design's micro enterprise.
