Beginning with only 27 women, Gahaya Links is now a profitable enterprise that works with 4,500 artisans in 40 cooperatives and associations that it helped to establish all over Rwanda. Since its establishment Gahaya Links has not only thrived economically – currently, a substantial portion of company products are sold in major department stores in the United States – it has created employment where none had existed, increased the income of thousands of rural families, and improved the quality of life for very poor women overcoming the scars of the Rwandan genocide. For profit and set up without assistance by two sisters but supported by USADF and has a social function - training weavers. Sells to Macys and has Starbucks as a partner