Even a small amount can go along way to making lives better, particularly when that amount can be recycled again, and again. Check Kiva out when you get a chance.I was part of Kiva’s impact in 2018 by lending to entrepreneurs around the globe 🌍 Visit www.kiva.org/ to learn more about Kiva and how you can help too!
A passionate article from one of the people we work with in Nepal. Please have a look at the full letter through the link in the text. Nasreen, her sister Saheen, and their organization, Local Women's Handicraft are doing some great work, empowering women, supporting villages affected by disasters, and raising awareness. Please check it out. You can also help, by acdessing their website and making some purchases of the fine products made by the women at LWH. Cheers,
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Dear CEO’s, What does Fair Trade mean to you? Does it mean eradicating child labor, forced labor and giving a voice to the undocumented workers? Does it mean buying and selling fairly? Or does it me...This week we are sharing extracts from our Open Letter for Action:
"The following is a snapshot of what we do that will hopefully encourage you and your corporation to follow suit:
• We started the campaign Clean City because the people of Kathmandu valley are unknowingly inhaling fumes equivalent to the smoking of 10 cigarettes every day;
• We provide menstruation wellness kits to poor school girls and women so they can feel comfortable and not miss school;
• We started the project Donate Creative Backpack because 20% Nepali students do not have sufficient supplies to attend school;
• Local Women’s Handicrafts follow the 10 principles of Fair Trade;
• We have a biogas where we recycle all our leftovers into a cooking gas;
• We train Earthquake victims and marginalized women with sustainable skills to make them independent. Since 2008, we have trained more than 100 women;
• We also have a cooperative shop where we invite every buyer to connect with all the employees and it is mandatory that every buyer visits our factory and connects with each artist.
I believe in the business of empowerment. I believe in empowering the people to improve their own lives. We are creating opportunities to inform other factories about working under Fair Trade conditions is possible, that a living wage is possible, and that ethical trade is possible."
Read the full letter at locwom.org/blog/ and please share to help us raise awareness
If you are not already aware of Kiva, check them out. Doing some good work to improve people's lives. Have a great 2019!
Cows and coffee are Catherine's recipe for success
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Catherine successfully started and grew a farming business with the help of a Kiva loan to purchase cows and goats.Family & Friends Project: Leveling The Playing Field of Opportunity for Children in Nepal
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謹賀新年
2019年 元旦
新年明けましておめでとうございます。新春を迎えファミリー＆フレンズプロジェクトを代表し、2019年の皆様のご健康とご多幸をお祈り申し上げます。
昨年はファミリー＆フレンズプロジェクトにとって忙しくもありましたが、良い成果を挙げた年でした。皆さまの募金活動、ご支援、ご協力に感謝いたします。
現在１１７人の子供達が学校で支援を受けており、バルマンディルテクノホームにて障害を持つ子供達の栄養改善プログラムも活動しています。そして私たちの英語の絵本を持っていく活動、bringbook.orgや、ネパールの先生方の支援のプログラムも、沢山の本を必要とする学校や図書館に与えており、それと同時に沢山の先生方や学校にて、トレーニングを行っています。詳細については、フェイスブックにて、ファミリー＆フレンズプロジェクトのページと、bringbooks.orgのページも両方を、ご覧になってください。
ネパールで働くパートナーや個人の人々の協力や、昨年におけるファミリー＆フレンズプロジェクト委員会のメンバーの多大なる支援や、もちろん私たちの他のサポーターの皆さまのご協力に感謝を申し上げたいと思います。そしてそれが、ネパールの子供達の教育の機会の水準をあげるのです。
最後に、この機会をおかりし皆様にネパールの子供たちへの多大なサポートに心からお礼を申し上げます。どうもありがとうございました。そして今後とも引き続きご協力頂けるように頑張っていきたいと思いますのでどうぞ宜しくお願い致します。
2019 年が皆さんにとって素敵な年になりますようにお祈りしております。
良いお正月をお過ごしください！
Sincerely,
Randall W. Bollig
The goal of the Family & Friend’s Project (F&FP) is to help provide opportunities for improved education, welfare, and health for handicapped and disadvantaged children in Nepal, and to promote cross-cultural understanding and raise awareness of certain issues facing people in the developing world.