Pebblechild: fair trade, organic children's clothing and toys

Pebble products are handmade by the wonderful ladies at Hathay Bunano, a non-profit organisation in Bangladesh. Hathay Bunano was started in 2004 by Samantha Morshed who moved there from the UK with her British Bangladesh husband and realised that morally it was necessary to put whatever limited skills she had to some use to help in a small way. The women of Bangladesh make beautiful things as part of their culture and heritage and so it was not such a great leap to teach some knitting and crochet skills and start to make toys and other products that would likely have an eager customer base and could potentially bring sustainable and flexible employment to rural and disadvantaged women.

Soon her husband was working with her full-time and setting up new rural production centres and arranging training courses as it kept expanding.

Hathay Bunano has grown from small beginnings in 2004 to now employing over 4000 people (predominantly women) in 54 rural centres, and the Pebble product is available in hundreds of beautiful boutiques around the world enabling people worldwide to help the women of Bangladesh be self-reliant and to provide for their families.