AURA QUE is not just about the finished products; its about the fair trade producers and their families that I work directly with, the constant challenges working in Nepal, as well as all the people I meet on my travels....

30 April 2012

Indian sweets and visitors with all the producers at Nepal Leprosy Trust

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So as NLT leather workshop is where I spend most of my time in Nepal, working on the patterns and checking on quality control etc when my productions are happening, so of course I wanted to take my parents there to meet people there! We had bought a lot of Indian milk sweets to pass around during the morning tea break, though I must admit, I'm not keen on eating them myself!!
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Above: Several workers had holiday leave , so here is several of the producers: - from left to right:

Kumar, Shyam, Bel, Maita, Me!, Kamala, Man Bahadur, Alka, Surya Kala, Bhagawati, Shanti.

Below: The regular product spread at NLT, and Bharat Neupane, who is the fantastic production manager for NLT.

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Also, when i was showing my parents around the NLT office, they had all their usual product collection laid out for a meeting with one of the big charity buyers - such as Tearfund, Traidcraft and Ten Thousand villages (who buy products already designed by handicraft charity units such as NLT).  So we had a look!

My products are designed individually by myself only for AURA QUE, and then we work through the sampling process with Kumar, Ram and Shyam. And these are very different style and price range from the regular offering they produce.

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