May 2013 - Ganesh Himal Trading

Trip to Nepal 2013

What do you do when someone you respect so much asks a huge favor of you... Denise & Laxmi of ACP ....When one of your mentors says they want you to lead them? Well, a few years ago, Candi Smucker of Baksheesh Fair Trade, asked me if I would take her to Nepal to meet

The Photograph We Didn’t Get

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By Candi Smucker In western Nepal is the town of Nepalgunj, it is located a couple of miles north of the border with India. This is were we flew on Thursday afternoon. The flight from Kathmandu was in a 30 passenger prop plane of some sort (yes, I know, not enough info for some of