Khandro Fair Trade and the Cause

The production of Khandro is conducted by fair trade and conscious commerce principals, directly benefiting the local village community and every worker involved. Tailors, weavers, knitters and embroiderers are treated

with respect and well paid. Additional training in hand skills to village women is enabled through Khandro and Dayan Cutler-Basnets other productions.

Further the team is committed to the village community well-being programs
funding and working with several root level projects: 

	A loving children´s home, The Birds Nest, is run to shelter the most vulnerable ones
	The poorest children are given sponsors for the funding of their education
	Medical facilities are being built in the village
	Chimneys have been placed in 85 village houses to protect the people from direct smoke inhalation
	Youth trainings are given in several skills: woodcarving, cooking, baking, driving, computers, trekkting, tailoring etc.
	The women´s group is supported to learn to grow and harvest organic crops

	A cleaning and recycling program ist running to keep the village clean and to educate villagers about hygiene
	During cold winter months, hundreds of children and given sets of warm winter clothing collected and sent from Europe
	Emergency rescue training is conducted for village men in case of catastrophe like an earthquake, floods, fires and other accidents
	Cultural activities, music and dance classes are organized for village youth