BALADARSHAN - SPEED Catalogue 2011

Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts

BALADARSHAN is now a proud member of the EPCH (EPCH/MEM/29338/2011-2012)

For further information see http://www.epch.in/

Baladarshan Monthly Selection: August 2011

 

Our logo is our challenge, making the slums and slum women considered differently and able to achieve high quality products !

News

From July 30th, the new prices list is applicable.

Baladarshan products are also distributed throughout India !  

 

Our TIN No: 33660542201

Our CST No: 1005276 Dt.01/07/2011

Local prices are available at 

www.baladarshan.com or by email at balafairtrade@gmail.com

From a slum in South India...

... to Belgium !

Meeting the producers (2)

Uravu is an NGO established in 1996 in Wayanad district Kerala. The organization intervenes rural parts of Kerala. Their main focus is resource enhancement & Eco restoration, Training women mainly in making bamboo products and other products with the natural materials available in the local area. 

With the help of Common facility center’s and women self help group, Uravu has trained the local community especially women in making bamboo products. The trainers from Uravu themselves are local people who underwent proper training in making bamboo products from universities like CBTC (Cane and bamboo training center),       NID (National Institute of design), IIT Mumbai. So through this collaboration program and the support of Government rural development programs, they have set up 25 micro enterprises in the district of Wayanad district so far.   

Uravu in connection with EXIM (Export Import Bank of India), Nabad (National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development), and MSME (Micro small medium enterprises) gives training and thus being the root cause for setting up these Micro Enterprises.  

 

Uravu in association with the GATI commission of India tries to form these groups called as bamboo clusters. As on now Uravu has set up one bamboo Cluster in the district of Wayanad under which 19 units are functioning. All the clusters are free to make their own products and are encouraged to be independent.

Beautiful bamboo Masks, some smiles and some stare at you, Bamboo jewelry’s doesn’t glitter but splendidly colored, Bamboo Pen’s-Plastic free, Bamboo and Jute bags of different colors are some of the crafts produced by Uravu.

Interested in supporting this organization ? Interested in more products ? Just email at balafairtrade@gmail.com !

Meeting the producers

Lingappan, 47, is native from a small village in the outskirts of Puducherry, where he still lives with his family. He learned wood work and carving while he was 14, was employed until 1994 in a workshop, before starting its own project. He now employs an assistant and has developed a lovely collection of incense holders, candle holders, made of a local variety of oak wood and serpentine stone. Lingappan's collection is exhibited in our wood catalogue, Ref. AGL.

http://www.baladarshan.com/en/wood.html

Catalogue updates

The silk shawls are now sold by set of 10 in assorted designs. 3 sizes available: 44 x 44", 36 x 36 ", 72 x 21 ". http://www.baladarshan.com/en/silk-products.html

New wooden & serpentine incense holders available. http://www.baladarshan.com/en/wood.html

Baladarshan Monthly Selection: July 2011

Matteo Chandru is born!

On June 16th, for the happiness of Denise, Philip and Laura !

June 12th: World Day Against Child Labour

The 12^th of June is the World Day Against Child Labour. Get involved in campaigns against child labour. Sign the petition to stop the US transnational corporation Monsanto from using child labour in cottonseed production in India. Click here to sign the petition http://bit.ly/loz4sY. For more campaigns visit the website of Global March Against Child Labour http://bit.ly/globalmarch.

According to Unicef 16 percent of children (5-14 years old) in developing countries are engaged in child labour, and 29 percent in least developed countries. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates of child labour at 33 percent.  The International Labour Organization (ILO) put the number of children involved in hazardous work to 115 million. 

Ensuring that no child labour is involved in supply chains is one of the 10 Fair Trade Principles.