World Fair Trade Day Celebration

This year World Fair Trade Day was celebrated on May 10 with Ecology as the theme. On this special occasion, our Executive Director, Ms. Meera Bhattarai made a call to join hands together to preserve the environment for the future generation and also shared the specific steps & initiatives ACP has taken and its commitment to preserve Nepal's fragile environment with all our partners and stakeholders.

With the objective to raise awareness amongst people of the impact of the environment on our health and the need to keep our surroundings clean. A street play was organized on May 9 at ACP premises and on May 12 at Thimi, Bhaktapur. Thimi is the traditional pottery village, 12 Km from ACP where our pottery making producers reside. These programmes were attended by around 380 people including ACP staffs, producers and the local community of Thimi, Bhaktapur.

Considering the intrusion of humans in natural surroundings which not only affects humans but is also a threat to all the living species, we encouraged our artisans groups to do tree plantation. Three of our groups- In-lay weavers from Therathum, Eastern Nepal; Leather producers in Sindhukot, Mid Region and Copper producers in Palpa, Western Nepal organized a tree plantation programme in their respective villages. Similarly we also participated in the Tree Plantation event organized by Fair Trade Group Nepal at New Sadle's premises, a member organization of FTGN.

Planting trees at Therathum