'Anchal' is a Kentucky-based clothing line that empowers Indian women who have escaped the commercial sex trade. According to recent estimates, between two and three million Indian women are involved in the sex trade. With few other options available, many of these women are unable to escape the industry.
Anchal aims to empower Indian women by providing them with an alternative way to make a living. The clothing line provides textile careers to women who are able to escape the commercial sex trade. Beyond providing a steady source of income, the jobs also help the women learn and master new skills. The women employed by Anchal are given the opportunity to learn everything from sewing to graphics.
The clothing line gives consumers an opportunity to fund a good cause by supporting social entrepreneurship in India.
Slavery-Fighting Clothing Lines
This Company Empowers Indian Women Through Textile Careers
Trend Themes
1. Empowering Sex Trade Survivors - An opportunity to support social entrepreneurship that empowers women who have escaped the commercial sex trade in India.
2. Alternative Livelihoods Through Textile Careers - Providing textile careers as an alternative source of income and new skill development opportunities for sex trade survivors in India.
3. Socially Conscious Consumerism - Consumers can use their purchasing power to support a good cause by buying clothing from a company that empowers and employs sex trade survivors.
Industry Implications
1. Fashion - The fashion industry can participate in fighting against the commercial sex trade by embracing similar models of empowering women through textile careers.
2. Social Entrepreneurship - This innovative business strategy can be replicated and applied to other industries that can employ survivors of human trafficking, to provide them with alternative livelihoods.
3. Non-profits - Non-profit organizations can consider creating similar job training and creation programs as a way to help survivors of the commercial sex trade through social entrepreneurship.