JHC

Janakpur Handicraft Center (JHC) is a social business entrepreneur promoting Mithila arts. The business was originally established in a small town of Nepal named Janakpur over 16 years ago and has undergone various changes in business as well as social strategy. The refined model is to promote art and employment. The company has two principals, Janakpur Handicraft Center located in Pasadena, and JHC located in Kathmandu, Nepal. All arts and craft works are done in Janakpur and Kathmandu of Nepal.

In JHC Mithila art is done by women living in village area of Janakpur. Due to the popularity of the Art in Nepal and India many male artists took interest in it.

Maithili society is a male dominated society, where women are not allowed to work outside. In Maithili culture a woman has to do all types of household works and has to help her spouse in field but working outside family is prohibited for her. So JHC working for the awareness of Maithili women is empowering women by making them self-independent.

Maithili women have great talents of Art and Crafts. And JHC has helped women to earn through their own talents.

What we believe is….

"Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry." — Bill Drayton, CEO, chair and founder of Ashoka, a global nonprofit organization devoted to developing the profession of social entrepreneurship.

Now- a days a good number of women are involved in this artwork who were far from education, economic independent and making self-decision in the past. JHC gives the women artists’ confidence, initiative and incentive to show their artistic value. They also get encouragement to sense the validity of their dwindling traditions and more to revive them.