Ra’ana Liaquat Craftsmen’s Colony was founded by Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan in 1947, later inaugurated as an NPO on 25th August 1954. RLCC is a right based non-profit organization that caters to the holistic needs of over 20,000 beneficiaries. Today it has evolved as a forward looking, conscientious organization registered with Voluntary Social Welfare, certified by PCP and recognised as an NPO under the Income tax Ordinance, 2001.
The women-centric programs at RLCC are strategised in consideration of community needs, government priorities and the targets identified by United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) with sector focus on education, health, vocational training, community outreach and livelihoods.
Initiated in 2008, the livelihoods program today has grown to support over 350 women home based artisans that have migrated to Karachi from various regions of Pakistan and are adept at the following craft techniques:
>Sewing >Embroidery >Crochet >Paper Crafts >Block Printing >Handloom >Beadwork >Basketry >Patchwork >Applique
* All remuneration as labor for artisans is calculated in accordance with sample making minutes and fair trade minimum labor wage rate at Rs.1.5/minute of production - (Rs. 19000/month - Home Based Workers in Sindh)
* Thesis Sampling: Thesis projects are an integral part of supporting a number of artisan livelihoods through creative collaborations. RLCC provides a safe space for these design interventions to take place enabling design students to explore innovations in the disciplines of arts, crafts and design.
* Adopt an Artisan: RLCC strives to uplift its artisans and regularly collaborates with various organisations to provide digital and financial literacy trainings to empower artisans towards entrepreneurship. With Adopt an Artisan, RLCC plays the role of connecting artisans to designers or organisations that require the services of the artisan independent of RLCC's facilitation in order to encourage artisans in becoming self-sufficient. Any client wishing to avail the services of the artisan independent of RLCC must agree to pay labor to artisans according to the minimum labor wage rate mentioned above to avoid exploitation of labor.
Terms and Conditions
Services provide by RLCC will be limited to connecting the Artisan to the the respective adopter, whereafter RLCC will not facilitate any communication in any form or mode with the artisans.
All artisan's labor will go through the Rlcc account and the Client will deposit the artists labor to the Rlcc account then Rlcc will pay to artisans.
After artisan adoption, the facilitation provided by RLCC will be limited only to providing RLCC ' Gup Shup Corner` for training / meeting between RLCC registered artisans & the adopter.
RLCC will not be responsible for any discrepancies in quality of products or absence of artisans during agreement between adopter and artisan.
RLCC will not be responsible for the reproduction of your product by the Artisan for any other entity, this is an understanding that the adopter must convey to the artisan personally.
RLCC will not charge any services costs or profit for connecting artisans with adopters
