Interview with Denise Attwood, Co-owner of Ganesh Himal Trading by Meredith Pietzman Fair Trade Winds What inspired you to start Ganesh Himal Trading and work with artisans in Nepal? When we arrived in Kathmandu in 1984, Ric and I had no idea that the experience would be a
In the early 2000’s I unintentionally swam the China Rapids of the Salmon River in Idaho.When I tell that to the people who know the River they gasp and say “Whoa, and you survived”? China Rapids is a difficult series of rapids that has a sequence of whirlpool holes that you want to avoid,
Ganesh Himal had the chance to interview Tekia Thompson who is the assistant manager at Ten Thousand Villages in Overland Park, Kansas. She is also the host of the new talk show serving the fair trade community, AmplifyLIVE! Recently, she started a blog on Instagram, Black & Fair. GHT: Tell us all about
CCF Helps Artisan Group (ACP) Survive COVID Recently I was contacted by my dear friend, Meera Bhatterai, director of the Association for Craft Producers (ACP), regarding a truly perilous situation for over 1000 women artisans in Nepal. Since their founding in 1984 ACP has helped 1000’s of low-income women in Nepal gain access to income,
New Shipment, Masks & More Uncharted territory is all we can say! Even the 2015 earthquakes didn’t fully prepare us for this Covid scenario. But we are forging ahead. We thought we might get a shipment out in early July, then as Covid surged in Nepal (see Covid blogpost) it turned to late
From Crazy Science Fiction to Untold Possibility... Welcome to the craziest science fiction story ever imagined. So glad you are in this story with us. As things get stranger, we at Ganesh Himal Trading feel and experience more powerfully than ever that our community is truly here for us and for each other.
Fair Trade Partners Spotlight Series Ganesh Himal Trading believes that if we want the world of trade to change we can't do it alone and that we are stronger together. So in the spirit of creating a movement for economic justice that will build far into the future
A friend once told me a story about the illusion of change. She said we all think it takes huge shifts to make big change, but imagine this, what if we changed our current direction by just one degree. If we did, and followed that trajectory, we would end up in an entirely different
