Grassroots Uganda is based in several villages all across Uganda.  Many of Grassroots Uganda's members have been caught up in the ongoing civil war in the North.

Grassroots Uganda makes cloth bags and jewelry,

The Payawpao Orchids are based in the small rural village of Sugod in the Philippines.  Their village is very isolated - the capital city of Manila is a 20 hour trip away - and they are regularly hit by typhoons sometimes leaving their village without power for weeks on end.

The Payawpao Orchids make many different types of craft and jewelry from paper beads as well as flax bags.