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When Helfand first started researching rugs, she came across an organization called Rugmark — now known as Goodweave — which is a nonprofit working to end child labor in the rug industry. They sent her a list of manufacturers, among them the one she eventually ended up working with. Shown here is the organization’s headquarters. “If they find kids on the loom, they put them back with their family and support them to go to school,” Helfand says. “If that’s not an option, they have a location where kids can live and go to school.”