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  • Update on Nepal

    Update on Nepal

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    New Shipment, Masks & More

    Uncharted territory is all we can say! Even the 2015 earthquakes didn’t fully prepare us for this Covid scenario. But we are forging ahead. We thought we might get a shipment out in early July, then as Covid surged in Nepal (see Covid blogpost) it turned to late July. Now it appears that international flights won’t resume until August 17! So, we’ve had to punt. Here’s what we think lies ahead:

    We are Fedexing a shipment of about 200kg (at a very high shipping rate) out of Nepal this week to hopefully arrive by August 7. We included high demand but lighter weight items like headbands, masks, gift envelopes, slippers, felt flowers, oven mitts and potholders in this shipment. Even though the shipping is 3X as much we aren’t increasing our prices on these items. We just want to generate some quick sales and cash for the producers, GHT and you. Fingers crossed!

    Our big shipment (heavier items) is packed and ready to leave on the first available international flight, hopefully August 17th! Nepal is no longer on lockdown and covid is spiking so we’re just waiting and watching. We have learned to say “who knows”! This shipment hopefully will be at our warehouse by early September. Luckily we still have a lot of wonderful items in stock in the warehouse, including fall knits that we stockpile through the year.

    Our producers have already missed one of the 6 shipments of the year due to lockdown restrictions. Although we are trying to make that up it is a huge loss to them, just as our loss of sales has been to us and yours to you. Luckily our producers got a big payment in early March and knew to watch their money but regardless it is getting tight so we will be sending the payment for all of the late August shipment this week so they can stay on top of paying their employees and suppliers. For our partners like ACP who have much higher overhead and valuable benefit programs for many marginalized women, we have facilitated a grant through Conscious Connections Foundation (see article below) and are actively doing more fundraising to help them stay afloat.

    For a fairly current look (it changes daily) at the covid situation in Nepal and the ways CCF is working to help out please see our latest blogpost and the CCF website. It’s quite detailed on the general impact of Covid. If you want to donate to our relief efforts 100% of your donation goes directly to relief and we greatly appreciate anything large or small. Denise & Ric are personally matching up to $2500 for relief to ACP.

    We are trying our best to get the producers as much work as possible and to get your goods to you for the same prices and in the same timely manner as in the past. We appreciate your patience as we navigate these uncharted waters. You have always been amazing to work with and we’re pretty sure you haven’t changed. We’ll keep you updated on FB and through our phone calls but feel free to call or email if you have any questions. We may not have the absolute answer but we will give it our best shot.

    In the meantime, again, know that we still have a lot of stock in our warehouse and if you can work with us to substitute similar items that’s always appreciated.

    Thanks for your continued support!

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  • Untitled post 81536

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    From Crazy Science Fiction to Untold Possibility…

    Welcome to the craziest science fiction story ever imagined. So glad you are in this story with us. As things get stranger, we at Ganesh Himal Trading feel and experience more powerfully than ever that our community is truly here for us and for each other. There is a beautiful supportive environment from everyone and it is heart-warming.  Our dynamic fair trade community feels solid and full of untold possibility.

     

    I told our Ganesh team last week, as we realize things will never go back to the way they were, we are invited to create together the reality that we would like to see emerge. This is our time to help a world of economic justice come into being and we get the chance to help midwife the birthing. Scary, yes, but so is every birth. Full of fear of what could happen but also the hope of what could be.

     

    I admit, these have been incredibly stressful times but I find hope in the strengthening of the vision we as fair traders have of a different world where all benefit and thrive. We have been walking this path already. We have understood that the pathways of old only worked for the few and that to forge a new reality we’ve had to walk on yet unrevealed paths with only each other by our sides. We truly are meant for these times and in some ways luckier than most in that we have already had the courage to venture into new terrain and believe in a new reality. So, we know it can be done. As I said before, so glad you are here creating this new story with us.

     

    To these ends, Ganesh Himal is working on some smaller and some larger ways to adapt and hopefully make things easier for all of you. We are trying to look at the world through different eyes and tell our story differently. Here are some changes you will see highlighted in this newsletter:

    1. In the past GHT was the “land of assortment” which works for many brick and mortars, but now we want to spread the word that we can also provide depth in design and color in many items for those who are on the web.
    2. Even though we have never done trade shows (because our carbon footprint is already big) new technology gives us the opportunity to open our doors virtually to you. Now you can schedule a virtual shopping experience, see all of our products and choose what you want. We’ll get to know each other even better and you’ll experience the same GHT amazing customer service.
    3. We realize that the world does not revolve around GHT alone and that you are always looking for a great variety of products that compliment each other. So with collaboration and growing the Fair Trade movement in mind GHT has created a page of wholesale FTF partners linking you to their websites and we will begin featuring WS FTF partners in our newsletter (to show how cool our products look together).
    4. Thanks to FTF we are joining with other Fair Trade Wholesalers to create a Fair Trade presence and GHT site on Faire.com. We won’t have our entire inventory on Faire.com but we will have about 200 products. More information on that below.
    5. We continue to promote the Conscious Consumer Network & AmplifyLIVE! on Facebook to brink a larger community into the awareness of why fair trade matters.
    6. Finally, (and this is not a change but a continuation of 30+ years of work), we are, through GHT’s non-profit partner Conscious Connections Foundation, supporting artisan relief to help really amazing businesses in Nepal from going under.

     

    In the words of the brilliant writer Terry Tempest Williams in her new book “Erosion: Essays of Undoing”:

     

    “What we experience as heartbreak, the loss of a job or a marriage, or illness, or another disruption in the life we had planned for ourselves, may be our liberation-an open door to growth.”

     

    We look forward to growing together as we take even bigger steps toward an equal, equitable, and just world where people and planet thrive. Thank you for taking the challenge, we hope to be there for you in any way we can.

     

    Be safe and be courageous, in these times.

    Hugs,  Denise

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  • Wholesale Partner Spotlight: Global Mamas

    Wholesale Partner Spotlight: Global Mamas

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    Fair Trade Partners Spotlight Series

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    Ganesh Himal Trading believes that if we want the world of trade to change we can’t do it alone and that we are stronger together. So in the spirit of creating a movement for economic justice that will build far into the future we want to spotlight some of our fair trade partners who are doing great work right along side of us. We hope this series will give you hope and help you see what an amazing fair trade community exists and how we can build it even stronger together.

    Featuring: Global Mamas

    Ganesh Himal Trading is honored to be working side by side with other fair trade wholesale operations like Global Mamas! Not only are they known for their beautiful batik dresses and recycled glass bead jewelry, they are respected for the way they do business and run their organization–which addresses healthcare and education within the Global Mamas’ community.  As their website says:

    Founded in 2003, the Global Mamas community is comprised of thousands of people from around the world working together with the mission of creating prosperity for African women and their families. The Mamas define prosperity as going beyond financial well-being to include happiness and good health. They achieve prosperity by creating and selling unique, handcrafted products of the highest quality. Being able to do the work they love and being empowered by financial independence leads to greater happiness. The Mamas realize their dreams of having the opportunity to support their families, send their children to school, improve their health, and save for the future.

    Our Global Community is made up of the Mamas who produce beautiful products using traditional methods; our employees who manage production, ensuring high quality and delivering personal customer service; our international volunteers and interns who contribute their time and talents to further the development of our Mamas’ expertise; our donors who support the expansion of our programs leading to more jobs, and customers who make everything we do possible by purchasing our products. Read more about Our History.

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    Ganesh Himal Trading’s best selling cotton shirt paired with Global Mama’s Globtrotter bag and earrings.

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    Ganesh Himal Trading’s wool vest paired with Global Mama’s Modern Times necklace, Mayne bracelets in silver and earrings.

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    Global Mama’s Boardwalk batik dress paired with Ganesh Himal Trading’s silver Sun earrings.

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    We had fun pairing Global Mamas cute products with Ganesh Himal’s.  Learn more about Global Mamas wholesale or retail products here>

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    Tune in to learn more about Global Mamas:

    Human Resource Director, Patience Essibu

    Tune into AmplifyLIVE! on Facebook on either the Ganesh Himal Trading page or in the Conscious Consumer Network group and  hear how  Global Mamas, a cutting edge Fair Trade organization based in Ghana that has created an innovative approach to doing business. We will talk with their Human Resource Director, Patience Essibu (live from Ghana) and Creative Director Alice Grau (Michigan) as they discuss with us how their non-hierarchical business model has resulted in a more level playing field so that everyone, from the artisan maker to the director, has a voice in running a business where everyone prospers. As a result, not only do the women in the organization thrive from these collaborative partnerships, but their impact is then magnified and builds inroads to healthcare and education for their families and communities.

    Creative Director Alice Grau with Global Mamas’ design team

    AmplifyLIVE! is a new video/podcast working in partnership with the Conscious Consumer Network. Learn more about the entrepreneurs, makers and change agents who bring fair trade & sustainable change to their local communities. Hear about the people and movements who make the products you buy and who are helping to build an economy where everyone can thrive.

    Join the Conscious Consumer Network Group here:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/fairtradeconsciousconsumernetwork/

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  • Our One Degree Shift

    Our One Degree Shift

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    A friend once told me a story about the illusion of change. She said we all think it takes huge shifts to make big change, but imagine this, what if we changed our current direction by just one degree.

    If we did, and followed that trajectory, we would end up in an entirely different place than if we had stayed on the same path. Just one degree and our end point is very different. That’s a big lesson.

    So here we find ourselves in a place where we have huge tumultuous change. 180 degree change for many. Change that is overwhelming and scary. How do we begin to cope with that? I think the answer lies in making sure we find our one degree of change and we work hard to create that path and stay on it. There are gazillions of changes we can make but to stay sane maybe our one degree is enough for right now. Focusing on that can give us resilience and power and still get us to an entirely different place.

    At Ganesh Himal Trading, our one degree of shift is to focus even more intently on nurturing our community and the amazing relationships of care and kindness that reside there.

    From our producer groups in Nepal, to our staff, to our customers and this amazing planet, our community literally is our focus right now. Our one degree shift is to always know and behave like we belong to an amazing web of relationships, of people and beings that rely on us and upon whom we heavily rely for our well-being.

    So, as you will read below, we’ve spent most of our time this past month creating & providing  trainings for retail store owners through our Fair Trade Retail Support Facebook group. It’s our desire to provide tools to help you survive and thrive through these difficult times. This week we launched our newest creation, the Conscious Consumer Network (CCN).  We hope this network will help customers locate, learn about and purchase from your retail fair trade stores through this Facebook group platform.

    Luckily the producers in Nepal we work with are doing ok through their own intense lockdown.

    Each of them received a big payment right before the pandemic struck, which we are so grateful for.  It is inspiring to see some of them, with funding from our foundation CCF, reach out to those less fortunate to distribute emergency food and needed menstrual supplies.

    Our incredible staff in Spokane are still luckily employed and all at home for the moment. Just this week we received a PPP loan and that gave us a sigh of relief since our sales in April were down 91.5% from 2019! To try to create a little normal, the staff rotates and one of them comes in a couple of times a week to do some bookkeeping or send the occasional order. And luckily Ric and I live just 500 feet from the warehouse so even when they can’t come in we are always open for business!

    We hope you are well and staying safe. We are lucky to have our community and to be able to share hope.

    We hope you can find your one degree of change and follow it vigilantly, if we all do that, with great clarity and kindness, perhaps, just perhaps, we will find the courage to continue on that path far into the future and create a “new normal” that allows all beings to thrive, including our amazing planet.

    Be well and be safe and if you need us, we are here.

    Namaste,

    Denise (and the Ganesh Himal mini universe!)

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    To all of our amazing friends & customers in the
    Fair Trade Community!

    We support you

    We are in a place of the unknowable in regard to the true impact of the Coronavirus on the Fair Trade community, but trust that together we will get through this. We are a group of forward thinking people who are forging a new path, together. For this we are the lucky ones.

    At Ganesh Himal Trading, we and all of the producers we work with, have been so lovingly supported by you all in times of crisis: during the Nepali civil war, the murder of the King’s family, the devastating earthquake of 2015, the India ban and more. You have worked with us and adapted with us through all of this. Now we can do the same for you. We love our community and we are here to see you succeed.

    Artisan Update

    The current situation: Luckily we just got a big shipment of goods on March 11. That means that we are fully stocked and that the producers just got a big payment. I have been in touch with all of our producer groups to explain the situation and help them understand that we will try our hardest to get them their normal orders for May but that they should be aware that we may not be able to due to store closures and quarantines. All of them understand and all of them are worried for you and wish you well. They have been through so much just in the last 5 years that they are understanding of uncertainty, cope very effectively and know there is “the other side” of disaster. Our producers receive orders and payments every two months so none of them are in a dire situation, at present, which is good. Ganesh Himal will try hard to provide them all with good orders in May and they know that. We have been through a lot together and we will get through this too.

    In Nepal they are also trying to understand how the virus will affect their lives. The government has closed the borders, is no longer issuing tourist visas and has canceled all climbing. They are also in the process of closing schools and trying to understand social distancing. For a country that is highly dependent on tourism this is devastating. It will require a lot from all of them.

    Have questions or need an ear?

    As for our team in Spokane this is another amazing group. We want to keep each other safe and healthy so as of this past Monday we made the plan to have only one person in the warehouse from 9-5 Monday through Friday. Everyone else is working remotely but can easily respond to your emails and continue to be in touch with you to keep you informed. We will keep this system in place as long as we need to so that everyone is safe. The best email to use is still info@ganeshhimaltrading.com or you can call in M-F to 509-448-6561.

    We are flexible

    Because our shipment just arrived, we will be calling everyone regarding any backorders, as we normally do. We totally understand if you want us to wait to send anything or even to cancel. If you do decide to take your back orders and want to work out payments due to the uncertainty that is fine too. Any one of our staff can help you with that. If you have the resources to pay, we of course appreciate that too. The major point is that we want you to have what you need to get through all of this and stay in business. We will work with you in whatever way makes that possible.

    Join our Fair Trade Retail Support Facebook Group

    Finally, if there is any creative way we can help you get your sales online we would like to help with that as well. We encourage everyone to join Ganesh Himal’s Fair Trade Retail Support page on Facebook to gain insight and energy from what others around the country are doing to cope and thrive! This is a very creative and inspiring group of people and will help you feel community when we are alone. You can sign up here https://www.facebook.com/groups/retailsupport/ .

    We are compiling resources with you

    Also, be aware that there are plans emerging for small business grants and loans. Facebook is unfolding one here https://www.facebook.com/business/boost/resource . As Ganesh Himal finds out about these kinds of interesting and helpful items we will post them on the Facebook retail support page and hope that you share them far and wide. Let’s share resources and ideas and build our community even stronger. Think about where we want to be 1 year from now and write down your vision. If we have clear intentions it will focus our actions and help us through.

    Finally

    This crisis will take clarity, patience and perseverance to move through but the ultimate story has not yet been written for how it will play out and we can all play a part in writing the chapters that mean the most to us. Much is at play and much will change. We need to prepare for how to birth that change and create stronger community. We stand beside you in that.

    Our very best to you in these times,

    Denise, Ric, Austin, Eileen, Sarah, Michele and Justin and all of the producers in Nepal

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  • CCF Update: First Aid Training

    CCF Update: First Aid Training

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    Conscious Connections Foundation (Ganesh Himal Trading’s Non-Profit), exists to help girls and women in Nepal thrive! To do that we partner with trusted Nepali partners to identify the most pressing issues they face and collaborate on how to address them.
    When asked about issues in the remote area of Sertung, where CCF has done several years of Menstrual Hygiene Training, key area leaders responded that they felt basic emergency first aid training was vital. This part of Nepal is very remote and medical help is far away so its important for village leaders to learn to stabilize and treat injuries that might otherwise become serious and life threatening.
    CCF Menstrual hygiene trainer Pema Tamang, a local Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) identified 9 village health care volunteers and 10 teachers from 6 remote villages surrounding Sertung. Pema felt these community leaders would have the best ability to learn the techniques and spread the information to impact the most people. Once the trainees were identified, CCF funded a 3 day intensive training, with Pema and a local midwife Pratina Tamang as the instructors.  The attendees learned everything from how to wrap sprains and perform CPR to identifying potential problems in pregnancy and tending to bites. Upon completion of the training each participant was then given a basic first aid kit for their community and funds for replenishing them. The training plus the kits and food came to less than $25 a day per person.
    CCF is happy to report that this first aid training was a great success. The response to the training was so positive that CCF is considering doing further, more in depth trainings for these villagers in the future. One woman, Gyalmo Tamang, a teacher in Chalis who attended the training was so excited about this program that she had her students actively learning first aid in her classroom only a few days later. In all Pema felt the training of these 19 village leaders could impact up to 900 individuals in these remote villages.
    This happened because of you and your continued support of CCF’s work in Nepal. Thank you!

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  • Happy Valentine’s Day

    Happy Valentine’s Day

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    Welcome to 2020 and another year of supporting each other, our customers, our artisan partners and the planet!

    We’re opening this year with the theme of Fair Trade relationships, mainly because without relationship we lose community and community is what Fair Trade is about. As we build a society of justice, equality and partnership together it’s important to honor and acknowledge our Fair Trade relationships. At this moment we just want to sit down across the virtual table, lift a glass, and let you know how much we appreciate you and the vision, hard work and courage that each of you brings to the table. We want you to know that every day we are truly grateful to be in relationship with you.
    I only wish you could also see and hear how grateful the producers in Nepal are as well. Recently, one of our artisan partners (who make the recycled sari trivets and bowls in the remote village of Sertung) explained how important our collective relationship is to them:
                 “When Toni Maya and Niri Maya Tamang work with Ganesh Himal Trading they get big opportunity to earn money they are very happy with this work. They used this money for their child’s school fees, Toni’s husband’s check up and to buy medicines. They are very happy. They say big thanks for Ganesh Himal. They told me please keep continue give us this work thank you “
    As we walk together forward into 2020 please remember we at Ganesh Himal Trading and the producer partners we work with are so grateful to all of you for being in relationship with us. Happy Valentines Day!
    Namaste, Denise

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    Interview with Kevin Natapow: Cultivating Strong Customer Relationships

    Kevin Natapow is a retail consultant specializing in inventory management, business development, POS systems, HR, customer service and marketing. His company, Creative Retail Solutions, serves to lend retail/inventory expertise to Fair Trade and other retail shops around the nation. Before starting Creative Retail Solutions, Kevin co-founded Momentum, a Fair Trade store in Boulder, CO. He helped grown Momentum in to a successful Fair Trade business and now lends his expertise to other retailers.

    Strong customer relationships are the foundation of a successful retail business. Ganesh Himal Trading had the chance to sit down with Kevin and ask him what he thinks helps cultivate stronger relationships.