Monthly Archives: December 2016

Categories: Fair Trade Connections, Ganesh Himal Artisan Spotlight, Ganesh Himal Product Spotlight, nepal, rural|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Featured Artisan: Padhma Creations Padhma Creation's Story It almost seems too simple: a skein of wool saving a life.  For women of Nepal, beaten down by a complex and consuming social status, wool is a welcome reality. Hasroon is one of these women.  Hasroon was married at 18 and living a

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Moisturizing Fair Trade "Silk Soap" Sericulture (the production of silk and the rearing of silkworms) was introduced into Nepal in the 1990's by development aid groups to try to create income generating opportunities for rural Nepali women. Unfortunately, the women were taught how to grow the mulberry bushes and the silkworms but little was