behno’s mission is to redefine and bring sharp awareness to the
 craft and character of “made in India” and to set a new standard for manufacturing for India’s garment trade that revolutionizes the way garment workers are treated, viewed, and employed. Further, behno aims to become a part of a global mission to inspire change and improve factory conditions to augment the quality of life and safety of individuals in the garmenting spaces of developing countries by working in partnership with international factories that adhere to rigid factory compliances. behno has also partnered with a large nonprofit and a successful industrialist of the garmenting industry to build an ethical garmenting factory in India called MSA Ethos. MSA Ethos incrementally implements The behno Standard, which is broken down into six categories:

In 2012, Shivam Punjya, behno’s founder, went to India to complete his research on women’s health. While he was in India, he came across some of India’s most breathtaking hand-made textiles, and visited rural villages to learn more about the textile industry and the communities that produce them. As Shivam started to better understand women’s roles in India’s garmenting and textiles industries, he learned that in many regions, up to 90% of India’s garment factories are powered by women. In other places, women are earning less than $1 per day to produce beautiful hand-spun, hand-woven textiles. He was astonished.

As Shivam’s “made in India” education continued, on April 24th, 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factory in neighboring Bangladesh collapsed. The devastating atrocity killed over 1100 garment workers, many of them women. That day the