We are also member of RUGMARK India. RUGMARK is a certification trademark, which assures importers and buyers that carpets with this label have been manufactured/exported by a company which has committed itself to work without illegal child labour, and which is subject to an effective surveillance mechanism.

RUGMARK Foundation, India was incorporated in September 1994 under Sec. 25 of the Indian Companies Act of 1956, as a private, voluntary, non-profit entity.

We are one of the active members of Care & Fair India. Care & Fair - Carpet Trade Against Child Labour e.V. is a professional association of the European carpet trade.

Its members are fighting the exploitation a children in the carpet production. They are obliged to pay one percent of the value of imported carpet from India, Nepal and Pakistan into a fund. This fund enables Care & Fair to finance various community development projects.

RUGMARK: A step to overcome this problem
The problem of child labour is inter-linked with various socio-economic conditions. Poverty is considered its main cause, which leads to illiteracy, low productivity, poor health and low life expectancy.The problem of child labour is thus a vicious circle. To help overcome this, RUGMARK is trying its best to break this circle by helping poor children. It provides free education upto primary level, text-books and uniforms. Besides it provides vocational training in many cases.

RUGMARK is spreading awareness among the people in the carpet belt about the abuse of child labour and making parents realise their responsibility towards their children. The strategy adopted to help solve the child labour problem is also reflected in the following chart.