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Edna Ruth Byler
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Edna Ruth Byler

American business pioneer
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  • fair trade
    / History

    …by the pioneering American businesswoman Edna Ruth Byler to a women’s sewing group run by the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Puerto Rico. Byler began selling the group’s crafts to friends and neighbours in the United States. In 1962 her project was adopted by the MCC as the Overseas Needlework…

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    …by the pioneering American businesswoman Edna Ruth Byler to a women’s sewing group run by the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Puerto Rico. Byler began selling the group’s crafts to friends and neighbours in the United States. In 1962 her project was adopted by the MCC as the Overseas Needlework…

    Read More