ARTISAN SPOTLIGHT:
Khlapsang Karpo Women Recycled Handcrafts
Due to its remote location, Ganesh Himal Trading had to be creative with the raw materials used for products made by this group. All scraps of sari fabric and beads are transported on the backs of the villagers over a two day mountain trek to their community. Lack of tools and electricity create another obstacle to producing products. Determined to provide economic opportunity to women in this village following the devastating earthquake of April 2015, Ganesh Himal Trading combined simple skill with beautiful detail to make this one of a kind wearable art.
Two days walk from any road lies the village of Sertung. Ganesh Himal Trading’s owners walked through this village in the fall of 2015 during their survey of damage in the remote Northern regions of Dhading district following the April 2015 earthquakes. During this visit they met a young woman who was the health care worker there and her husband. Their village was so heavily damaged and they wanted to know if we could help them get some economic income to the women and children left in the village (Conscious Connections Foundation also provided blankets).“Namaste, I would like to thanks for order necklaces. Our women life story is in Sertung women are maximum uneducated but they are everyday hard working. They do old type of farming and after planting they wait six month to get the crop.They have no [income generating] work. They are after earthquake live in small trap. This recycle necklace made them if you buy continue this necklace they get good incoming job.and help thier child study.” -Yogendra
Posts from the Past!
A Day in Kathmandu
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ADAPTING FOR THE UNIMAGINABLE
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Minutes after I published our last written blogpost, we hauled our bags down the five flights of stairs at Chunta’s apartment and piled them, along with the four of us, Pradeep, Ram, and our driver
Peace, Primates, and Productivity
Check out our very first vlog and some pictures from our adventures! Please leave a comment letting us know what you think! Thank you! http://consciousconnectionsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/10-7-First-Vlog.mp4
Frontline Fair Trade
Never in anyone's wildest dreams did we imagine that our small foundation, set up for rural health care and the education of Nepali girls, would be involved in one of the largest humanitarian disaster relief
Light Up Rural Nepal!
The Conscious Connections Foundation (CCF), a registered 501(c)3 EIN# 471602190 founded in 2014 by Ganesh Himal Trading, is working with Alison Thomson, Third-Wave Volunteers and Solight Design to bring SolarPuff lights to remote areas in Nepal where CCF