Ten Thousand Villages has been in close contact with artisan partners in Pakistan, where monsoon rains in have been the heaviest in 80 years and have caused flooding and landslides in multiple regions of the country.
Artisans working with Bunyaad, a Ten Thousand Villages a...rtisan partner, have been affected by the flooding. Bunyaad has a number of rug weavers and jewelry makers in areas that have reported flooding.
Nasir Gul, a village supervisor in the Dera Ghazi Khan region, where many villages were flooded, reported that a number of artisans were directly affected by the flooding. After a conversation focusing on how to get food, shelter and emergency supplies to the artisans he shared that he hopes to get the artisans back to work as quickly as possible.
Nasir said, “If there is work, a family has something to focus on, something that makes them feel like they are building a step in their future. Just sitting around, looking at the water and wondering what is coming next doesn’t make it easy for these families."
To view a full report and photos from Pakistan: http://rugs.tenthousandvillages.com/flooding
View Ten Thousand Villages Items by Bunyaad: http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/cata ... e=homepage
View Oriental Rugs by Bunyaad: http://rugs.tenthousandvillages.com/
View Ten Thousand Villages Items by Dominion Traders: http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/cata ... e=homepage
Artisans working with Bunyaad, a Ten Thousand Villages a...rtisan partner, have been affected by the flooding. Bunyaad has a number of rug weavers and jewelry makers in areas that have reported flooding.
Nasir Gul, a village supervisor in the Dera Ghazi Khan region, where many villages were flooded, reported that a number of artisans were directly affected by the flooding. After a conversation focusing on how to get food, shelter and emergency supplies to the artisans he shared that he hopes to get the artisans back to work as quickly as possible.
Nasir said, “If there is work, a family has something to focus on, something that makes them feel like they are building a step in their future. Just sitting around, looking at the water and wondering what is coming next doesn’t make it easy for these families."
To view a full report and photos from Pakistan: http://rugs.tenthousandvillages.com/flooding
View Ten Thousand Villages Items by Bunyaad: http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/cata ... e=homepage
View Oriental Rugs by Bunyaad: http://rugs.tenthousandvillages.com/
View Ten Thousand Villages Items by Dominion Traders: http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/cata ... e=homepage

A Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) worker in Afghanistan, Glen D. Lapp of Lancaster, Pa., was killed this week in a shooting incident in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province.
Ten Thousand Villages Store is celebrating the GRAND OPENING of its newest store in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee! The world’s largest and oldest fair trade retailer of artisan-crafted home decor and gifts opened a new gift store in Belz Outlets at 2654 Teaster Lane. Live nearby or visiting East Tennessee soon, click here for savings coupon:
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The Ten Thousand Villages Annual Report [1.04 MB] for the period April 1, 2009 to March 31.
Israfil, master craftsman with Zordozi Original, a workshop of handicraft marketing organization CRC Exports in Kolkata, India, embroiders the Heirloom Tree of Life Wall Hanging sold in Ten Thousand Villages stores and online.
Zordozi Original has been working with CRC Exports for the past five years. Artisans of this group create both simple decorative embroidery and the more complex textured embroidery found in pieces such as our Heirloom Tree of Life hanging. Both men and women work on the embroidery, although it is the men who create the most complex pieces—works of art that require enormous amounts of time to complete.
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