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Mahaguthi, Craft With A Conscience...

Mahaguthi, Craft With a Conscience is a fair trade organization which produces, markets and exports Nepalese crafts. Mahaguthi serves both the domestic and international markets and has three shops based in the Kathmandu Valley. Our organization represents the efforts of more than one thousand individual producers, fifty percent of whom are from remote and mountainous areas. Many of our producers are women who are given the chance to employ traditional skills in their own homes, thus enabling them to generate extra income. In addition, some 40 percent of the income generated by our organization provides women and children of the Tulsi Mehar Mahila Ashram with training, food, shelter, clothing, health care and education.

Mission
Adhering to the fair trade values and principles, we provide technical, social and financial services to underprivileged target groups, especially women, and sell their handicraft to domestic and international markets.
Objectives
Promote micro enterprises through backward and forward linkages
Build capacities of small artisans and groups to improve their level of performance both in terms of quality and quantity
Promote traditional culture, art and artisans by means of developing new products with traditional skills and resources
Lobby, advocate, practice and promote fair trade for sustainable trade development
You can help Mahaguthi by...
purchasing goods from our store,
promoting our products to international market,
informing friends, relatives and business people about us,
giving information about prospective buyers to us, and
supporting our endeavor to advocacy and lobby about fair trade issue.
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