●●○ medium
There is no confirmed −; independently verified + decide the position (B). No unreachable strike-through.= non-additive meter
JOGGO: Training Bangladesh's poor and Japan's people with disabilities into leather artisans. “JOGGO” means “tailored to the person” in Bengali. In 2013, Kazunari Taguchi of Borderless Japan and the Bangladesh-born Faruk Hossain founded it to solve poverty in “the poorest country in Asia” through employment in a leather industry that uses local resources, for people who “couldn't get an education and find it hard to work.” At its own factory in Bangladesh, it gives priority to hiring people who are hard to employ elsewhere — single mothers, those who never attended school, people raised as orphans, people with physical disabilities — and trains them into first-class artisans making made-to-order leather goods. It uses the cowhide that comes out in large amounts at the annual festival “Eid,” and in 2018 opened a free daycare, “Himawari,” near the factory. In 2017 it also set up a factory in Japan (Higashimurayama) where people with mental and developmental disabilities work as leather artisans. The letter is B; certainty is medium. (As of 2026-Q2; estimate based on public information.)
Main narrative
“JOGGO” means “tailored to the person” in Bengali. In 2013, Kazunari Taguchi of Borderless Japan and the Bangladesh-born Faruk Hossain founded it to solve poverty in “the poorest country in Asia” through employment in a leather industry that uses local resources, for people who “couldn't get an education and find it hard to work.”
At its own factory in Bangladesh, it gives priority to hiring people who are hard to employ elsewhere — single mothers, those who never attended school, people raised as orphans, people with physical disabilities — and trains them into first-class artisans making made-to-order leather goods. It uses the cowhide that comes out in large amounts at the annual festival “Eid,” and in 2018 opened a free daycare, “Himawari,” near the factory. In 2017 it also set up a factory in Japan (Higashimurayama) where people with mental and developmental disabilities work as leather artisans.
One person’s story (N1)
+ before → after
People turned away by other factories — “because you have a disability,” “because you can't read” — learn cutting and sewing at JOGGO's factory and work with pride as first-class made-to-order artisans. At the Kumegawa factory in Japan, people with developmental disabilities, depression, or schizophrenia aim to become permanent employees at pay on par with non-disabled staff. President Akihiko Takahashi says, “I want to turn every person with a disability from a recipient of social security into a taxpayer.”
Source nature: 朝日新聞 / LITALICO仕事ナビ / P2 major media. Positive effects are not used to offset negatives.
Positive / negative effects
+ effects
- Recognized for the social value of job creation in Bangladesh and the design quality of its products, it won the “Social Products Award” at the Social Products Award 2014.P4 industry association / ソーシャルプロダクツ普及推進協会
− effects (confirmed)
- No confirmed −.
Nothing of note at present.
A second look
By what measure to keep independently verifying the quality and durability of employment in both Bangladesh and Japan.
Sources
How to read this assessment
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