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The Craft Aid Project was founded in 1982 in Rose-Hill, its main aim being to provide paid employment to disabled people and therefore helps in their rehabilitation.

Today Craft Aid is fully equipped with125 employees, some 40% among them disabled, who are employed on a full time, on full wages and contributions.
Craft Aid has departments for furniture making, pressed flower cards, Handscreen printed T-Shirts, and one which packs Mauritian sugar along with tea Production.

Activities are carefully chosen to fit in with the economic realities of the island and consideration of the social and cultural situation. At recruitment level, handicapped employees are given full priority for available jobs in the workshops. Normally selection of non-able employees are done with the help of some collaborates like the NCRD, APEIM (Associations des Parents Inadaptes De l'ILE Maurice) and many more. Craft Aid also employs a number of non-handicapped workers, thus enabling teams of disabled to work together in a near normal situation with the able ones and thus rehabilitation by insertion is taking place.

Craft Aid's Mission is to produce and market a range of products to buyers whose needs they identify and can fulfill by using their own resources in the best possible way ensuring that employees are suitably trained. Craft Aid boosts of their high international quality standard products which include organic cotton clothing and cards.

They strive to continuously up-grade their operations and sustain their financial viability so that they can improve the living standards of employees and in this way support and rehabilitate disabled, disadvantaged and needy communities in Mauritius.

As global competition becomes harsher and market shares tighten, Craft Aid is determined to fight for the poor, the underprivileged and the differently able in promoting their creations and improve upon standards. They wish to serve customers better, through change and innovation tailored to their needs.

They remain alert and open to market opportunities and threats which can be adapted into their organization accordingly.