Click the link to view our current range of Krama Scarves from Cambodia.
Monday 26 April 2010
Krama Scarves
Another shippment of Cambodian Krama Scarves arrives in London from our distributors in Phnom Penh. They have been the best selling item on http://www.ethicalasia.com/ and we are soon to launch a dedicated website just selling Krama Scarves and increase our range on offer.
Click the link to view our current range of Krama Scarves from Cambodia.
Click the link to view our current range of Krama Scarves from Cambodia.
Friday 16 April 2010
The Burmese Way
This is an exert from the April Newsletter which can be viewed in full: Ethical Asia Newsletter.
In the books section of the Ethical Asia website is a publication that very few people in the West will have seen, and would seem to be the least ethical book on the planet. How to Cook and Entertain the Burmese Way is a Burmese recipe book sold at a state-run book shop in Rangoon, the largest city in one of the most repressive countries on the planet – Burma.
But by channelling this obscure publication to new markets and in donating money from its resale to one of the ethnic groups persecuted the most by the Burmese junta – the Karen – we’re trying to rewire the market for products like this in unusual ways that benefit some of the most disadvantaged people in the region, and among the least understood.
In buying this book, 10 percent of the unit profit made will go directly to the Karen Hilltribes Trust in Thailand which aims to look after the needs of the huge refugee populations that have fled east across the border from Karen and Mon states in Burma due to attacks by the military, an internal conflict that has been fought for half a century. This is a problem that is not going away and requires steady streams of funding.
The book itself is a fascinating read given its lengthy explanations on how and what Burmese eat, although some may be dismayed by its treatise on equal rights in Burma...........click the link below to read more:
Burmese Culture
In the books section of the Ethical Asia website is a publication that very few people in the West will have seen, and would seem to be the least ethical book on the planet. How to Cook and Entertain the Burmese Way is a Burmese recipe book sold at a state-run book shop in Rangoon, the largest city in one of the most repressive countries on the planet – Burma.
But by channelling this obscure publication to new markets and in donating money from its resale to one of the ethnic groups persecuted the most by the Burmese junta – the Karen – we’re trying to rewire the market for products like this in unusual ways that benefit some of the most disadvantaged people in the region, and among the least understood.
In buying this book, 10 percent of the unit profit made will go directly to the Karen Hilltribes Trust in Thailand which aims to look after the needs of the huge refugee populations that have fled east across the border from Karen and Mon states in Burma due to attacks by the military, an internal conflict that has been fought for half a century. This is a problem that is not going away and requires steady streams of funding.
The book itself is a fascinating read given its lengthy explanations on how and what Burmese eat, although some may be dismayed by its treatise on equal rights in Burma...........click the link below to read more:
Burmese Culture
Wednesday 14 April 2010
Chi Pat Community Tourism Project, Cambodia
Children play at the Chi Pat community tourism project Cambodia
Friday 2 April 2010
Sunrise for Cambodian Children - April Newsletter
The following is from EthicalAsia.com's April newsletter and the full Newsletter can be seen here.
FORMERLY working at Chase Manhatten Bank (now JP Morgan) in Sydney, Australian Geraldine Cox performed an abrupt about-face in her career following a visit to Cambodia in 1993 with a friend.
It started with raising money for just one child, garnering donations back home after witnessing the bleak circumstances of some of Cambodia’s most disadvantaged children. By 1998, Geraldine’s orphanage projects had been recognized as a fully fledged non-governmental organization helping to better the lives of dozens more Cambodian kids.
Today Sunrise offers a real chance - and a new family- to children unlucky enough to have found themselves parentless with orphanages in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, a beach resort on the south coast of the country.
Given the enduring poverty in Cambodia, the legacy of war that still blights the country in the form of landmines in particular and the lack of social security in the country, projects like Sunrise are vital.........click the link below to read more:
Cambodian Children's Charity
FORMERLY working at Chase Manhatten Bank (now JP Morgan) in Sydney, Australian Geraldine Cox performed an abrupt about-face in her career following a visit to Cambodia in 1993 with a friend.
It started with raising money for just one child, garnering donations back home after witnessing the bleak circumstances of some of Cambodia’s most disadvantaged children. By 1998, Geraldine’s orphanage projects had been recognized as a fully fledged non-governmental organization helping to better the lives of dozens more Cambodian kids.
Today Sunrise offers a real chance - and a new family- to children unlucky enough to have found themselves parentless with orphanages in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, a beach resort on the south coast of the country.
Given the enduring poverty in Cambodia, the legacy of war that still blights the country in the form of landmines in particular and the lack of social security in the country, projects like Sunrise are vital.........click the link below to read more:
Cambodian Children's Charity
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