2010 December — Setu Fair Trade

Eye refraction camp-II for the artisans of Tilonia

$Eye Refraction Camp For The Artisans of Tilonia$

Eye refraction camp-II for the artisans of Tilonia, Rajasthan (20 December 2010) As part of our efforts to provide artisans with basic medical facilities, last month on 20th December 2010, another eye refraction camp was organized for our women artisans at Tilonia. Tilonia is a place of traditional craft where people practice embroidery, stitching and similar craft work requiring intense use of eyes. With increasing age, artisans’ eyes become vulnerable to various eye ailments like short sightedness, glaucoma, general eye weakness etc.; … [Read more...]

Visit to woodcarving artisans

Visit to woodcarving artisans: SETU team also visited our wood carving artisans of HSSS. Our beautiful earring stands, wood eyeglass holder and many other wooden products are made by this group. We interacted with the artisans and tried to found out their problems while working. Most of the artisans are quite happy with their work reason being now they have more orders, i.e., more & regular work which was not the case earlier when they were not associated with SETU. Also, facilities like advance payments have changed their life for … [Read more...]

Guiding the artisans for quality improvement – visit to jewellery making and wood carving artisans of Moradabad and Bijnor

Guiding the artisans for quality improvement – visit to jewellery making and wood carving artisans of Moradabad and Bijnor (8-9 December 2010) In an effort to implement our vision of overall artisan development, SETU team visited our jewellery making artisans at Moradabad and wood carving artisans of Bijnor. Visit to Moradabad: SETU team, consisting of team head Rashmi and product development manager Archna, visited the artisans. The group houses our jewellery making artisans. Our beautiful cuffs and earrings are made by this group. … [Read more...]

2nd International Conference on Climate change and Sustainable Management of Natural resources

2nd International Conference on Climate change and Sustainable Management of Natural resources (5- 7 December, 2010) SETU team co-organized a conference on climate change and Green marketing with ITM Universe, a prestigious management school of Gwalior. The conference span over a period of 3 days from 5-7 Dec. 2010 In the session, SETU team head Rashmi explained the basic concepts of Fair Trade to the management students along with a heated debate on Green Marketing. Keynote speakers in the conference were Mr. David Wittenberg (CEO, … [Read more...]

Green Marketing Session

Green Marketing Session – 6 Dec. 2010 “Going green is the need of the hour” was the topic of discussion in the Green Marketing Session. In the present scenario, where customers re not much aware about the green concept and therefore show less inclination to buy green products; green Marketing has a long way to go. The speakers stressed on the fact that the future of green marketing is entirely in the hands of youth; only they can bring changes in people’s perception. Mr. David Wittenberg addressing the green marketing session … [Read more...]

Reinforcing artisan talent!!

Reinforcing artisan talent!! (December 2010) Nurturing talent is as important as recognizing it, only then the true mettle of an artisan can come out. With this view, in December 2010; SETU sponsored awards to the student women artisans of Kalaraksha Vidyalaya (a venture of Kalaraksha, one of our partner NGOs). Awards were given for showing excellence in respective art forms. These act as motivation to the artisans to perform up to their best of ability. Our main aim is to support artisan development & bring out their creativity. … [Read more...]

World AIDS Day

“Prevention is better than cure” holds true for AIDS. AIDS is an issue to which we can no more turn our backs! Since 1995, December 1 is celebrated every year as World AIDS day. In the past few years, things have significantly changed for AIDS..Awareness on this incurable disease has increased manifold. It is now a discussable subject, especially in a country like India where earlier a mere mention of it would have raised eyebrows. Also people know what causes it and what are the preventive measures one can take. Now, parents try to discuss … [Read more...]