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Since 2001, Mekong Quilts has been steadfast in its mission and core values; providing sustainable fabric work for underprivileged women with the ultimate goal of transforming the lives of their families and the community at large.   A [...]

Almost thirty years ago, Mekong Plus, a Vietnam and Cambodia-based non-profit organisation focusing on human development of rural communities, began work to alleviate the problem of lack of employment for underprivileged women in the region. Thanks to a [...]

Since 2002, Mekong Quilts has provided sustainable quilting and handicraft work to needy women in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam and Cambodia. Many of them from broken families and often trying to turn around their lives, Mekong [...]

Mekong Quilts is best known for its beautiful bed quilts sewn by some of the most nimble-handed and talented women artisans in Vietnam and Cambodia.   For more than 20 years, the humble social enterprise has improved the [...]

Founded in 2001, Mekong Quilts was created as the social enterprise of its parent organisation, Mekong Plus Nonprofit organization, to help underprivileged women in the Mekong Delta supplement their income through sustainable employment. Having expanded its line of [...]

Do you hear the Christmas bells ring? You’re not imagining things because it’s already winter depending on where you live. We figured that means it’s time to help you out with shopping for the season’s greetings! Despite the [...]

As a social enterprise that exists thanks to people’s love for handmade textile, Founding Director Bernard Kervyn is no stranger to the inconvenient truths that looms over the industry. “Almost 85% of disposed wearables end up in landfills, [...]

It was March 2020 when Vietnam, along with the rest of the world, began to feel the dire effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy. For almost two decades, Mekong Quilts flourished thanks to a symbiosis between [...]

Since the quilt-focused social enterprise closed its last physical stores in Ho Chi Minh City , Ha-Nội, and Phnom Penh in June 2021 due to the pandemic, founding director Bernard Kervyn has spent time to consider less costly [...]