Local Women’s Handicrafts (LWH) is a fair trade textile and handicraft collective in Kathmandu.LWH focuses on empowering and educating disadvantaged and marginalised women, using sustainable methods. All products are ethically produced, providing fair wages and working conditions for the women who make them. Their social business programs seek to uplift women, their children and their communities.Each woman at LWH participates in a training program for an average of 12 months. Participants can choose which skills they want to pursue. These...
Learn moreMedium Backpack with Blue Stripes panels
Organic hemp & cotton backpacks are versatile, durable, and uniquely fashionable. Perfect for everyday use for school, office or outdoors. Hemp backpacks are completely natural and sustainable. After a few years of use it can be composted in less than a year. Producers of these backpacks are empowering women by giving them jobs and a fair salary, directly contributing to end modern day slavery and sweatshops.
Featuring different hues of blue in traditional design. Three outside zipped pockets. One large zipped pocket with a divider. Made in Nepal.
- 80% hemp.
- Size: 43x29x15
- Care: Wash with cold water and allow to dry flat.
Supporting and purchasing handmade products created by artisans living in poverty, provides them with positive livelihoods. Fair trade products actively support Fair Trade and Anti-Slavery initiatives. Standing up for people in need for the present and future. (13394)
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