What is Ten Thousand Villages?
Ten Thousand Villages is a marketing organization that sells handicrafts from “Third World” countries through its network of 43 stores in Canada, 115 in the US, and through 300 annual Festival Sales in Canada (100+) and the US (200+). It is a program of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a relief and development organization working around the world. Ten Thousand Villages has its roots in the work begun by Edna Ruth Byler in 1946.
