HEED Handicrafts

Health, Education & Economic Development (HEED) Handicrafts is a job creation program representing over 250 small co-operatives involved in handicrafts, fishery and agriculture projects. HEED sponsors new initiatives through micro-credit loans, and deals with community health issues. It also provides family gender education programs and manages leprosy hospitals. HEED works with refugees, widows, the poor and illiterate, as well as indigenous tribal groups living in northeast Bangladesh.