{"id":19203,"date":"2011-02-17T21:42:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T04:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=19203"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:03:18","slug":"popinjay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/popinjay\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Women &#038; Girls In Pakistan To Be Educated and Employed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27427887\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>On an otherwise reasonable evening, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, for the culmination of the 2011\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a>. They came to see <a href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/category\/program\/institute\/2011_institute\/\" target=\"_blank\">27 ventures<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0present their solutions to some of the world\u2019s greatest challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Saba Gul, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Popinjay (formerly Bliss), shares how her venture is providing the sustainable\u00a0education and employment solutions for girls and women living in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Popinjay Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popinjay.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">Popinjay<\/a> produces handmade, one-of-a-kind fashion accessories that combine luxurious craftsmanship and ethical business.The company\u00a0spends months finding some of the world\u2019s most skilled artisans, embroiderers, pattern-makers and seamstresses to bring the finest workmanship\u2014and it shows in every product they create. When a Popinjay product is purchased, there&#8217;s a trust that it will be handmade, high-quality, and a unique creation of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Popinjay invites you to think about who makes the products you buy, and how their lives are impacted by it. Popinjay offers artisan women practical training, fantastic wages, dignity and a path to self-sufficiency. By connecting artisans\u00a0to global markets, Popinjay\u00a0brings a fair value for\u00a0work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this 2011 Unreasonable Institute entrepreneur talk about how her venture is bringing sustainable education and employment opportunities to women &#038; girls in Pakistan by <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1560,1495,1494,1538,1500,431],"tags":[1588,298,329,556,1586,1587,1524,1584,586,1564,1585,1590,22,1589,449,355,282],"class_list":["post-19203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-economy","category-education-tags","category-gender","category-institute","category-2011_institute","category-talks","tag-artisan","tag-development","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-fair-wage","tag-gender","tag-girls","tag-institute","tag-institute-11","tag-literacy","tag-middle-east","tag-pakistan","tag-retail","tag-talk","tag-vid","tag-women","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Empowering Women &amp; 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