What Is Fair Trade All About Anyways?

What Is Fair Trade All About Anyways?

What exactly are you paying for when you get charged those extra dollars and cents for a “Fair Trade Certified” product? Read these stories to find out!

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Orange Tigers

Orange Tigers

We all have moments that inspired us in a life changing way. This is the story of how a little old lady and her orange tigers ignited my passion for fairer trade.

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A Vision of Choice

A Vision of Choice

You see a picture, of a girl in tattered clothes, sitting cross-legged on a dusty floor, gazing up at you with large eyes that seem to exude the suffering of her family and people. How do you choose to see her?

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The power of one….

The power of one….

Poverty Alleviation is a common enough term that momentarily stirs up feelings of passion, but often gets thrown over someone’s shoulder when they realize how ambiguous and fluffy it sounds to want to help poor people around the world. I often ask myself (Monica Lackman) “What is it I can actually do to help people living in poverty a few 1,000 miles away? Can anything be done?” Can I, me, the person reading this blog do anything to put my fuzzy altruism to practical use? Well, the answer is yes! And this blog post is going to give you a more tangible impression of how you can involve yourself in alleviating global poverty.

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New Year’s Sales

New Year’s Sales

So far the new years resolutions for 2010 for updating the blog. There is a lot going on at Royal Bhaktapur. Especially the website is currently having a major overhaul in the system for new improvements, faster performance and higher user friendliness. In the coming days the site might have some flaws, but we’re doing [...]

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Introducing our new Revamped Customer Reviews

Introducing our new Revamped Customer Reviews

We’re excited to announce that we just launched our new Revamped Customer Reviews on our online Store. With many lots of exiting new features, new enhanced security, higher level of moderation processing and more trustworthy reviews. Images, Videos and Blogs — more engaging and personal A picture is still worth a thousand words. You can [...]

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Royal Bhaktapur featured in “Salamander”

Fair Trade from Nepal Het begon als een leuk project om ervaring op te doen in ondernemen en tegelijkertijd idealen te verwezenlijken. Inmiddels verkoopt het bedrijf van Arcadiaan Radboud Buitenrust Hettema en zijn studerende zoon Niki wereldwijd handgemaakte kwaliteitsproducten uit Nepal. ‘Royal Bhaktapur’ heet het familiebedrijf. Vader en zoon runnen het in hun vrije tijd. [...]

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Partners Worldwide Business Conference

Partners Worldwide Business Conference

Transform the life of others and you”ll be transformed. Together we can work on a concept to end poverty and grow a sustainable development. Royal Bhaktapur, live from the conference in Muskegon, Michigan, United States.

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