Center for Handicraft Research, Linkage and Development (CRAFT LINK) is a Vietnamese not-for-profit, fair trade organization which helps ethnic minority groups, disadvantaged groups and traditional craft producers to revive their culture and improve their livelihoods through handicraft production and marketing. Since forming up in 1996, Craft Link has carried out 39 successful projects in many different remote provinces in Vietnam. Craft Link's projects not only help the ethnic minority groups and traditional craft producers to revive their culture, but also help them to have more income through our marketing and distribution channels in Vietnam and oversea so that they can manage the groups by themselves and develop sustainable. At present Craft Link is supporting 70 groups allover Vietnam, with the total of more than 6000 beneficiaries. Craft Link does retail, wholesales and export different types of handicraft and hand made products. Profit from Craft Link business is used to fund for all the project activities, supporting the poor artisans all over Vietnam. Craft Link also publishes books and many additional promotion materials to raise public awareness about the traditional culture of the Ethnic groups and craft groups in Vietnam. By buying Craft Link products, it means you support our artisans directly to overcome their difficulties and to improve their lives in a most effective and sustainable way.