Tackling the Health Care Debate: 3rd Stop: Afganistan, Ethiopia, Swaziland, & Mali
For thirty years Ellen Dorsch worked in public health in program development, evaluation, and administration in the States, East Africa, Central America and Russia. So when she left her consulting business 7 years ago , her friends and colleagues asked if she would miss working in public health. Ellen thought not and focused her energies on a Fair Trade business called Creative Women, importing elegant textiles from Ethiopia.
Continue Reading Add comment February 10, 2010
Tackling the Health Care Debate: Health by the Basketful – 2nd Stop: Cambodia
As we in the US are currently on a quest to understand Healthcare, and its availability and need in this nation and worldwide, we’ve sent our feelers out to some other Fair Traders we know. We’ve recently talked about Peru, our home turf, but now we turn East to Cambodia, where our friend Tom Yesberger, president of Baskets of Cambodia sheds some light into Cambodia’s health care system and how Fair Trade is affecting the health of his artisans.
Continue Reading Add comment January 14, 2010
Tackling the health care debate Fair Trade style: 1st stop – Peru
Recently we wrote we were going to tackle healthcare across the world – specifically how we see it as Fair Traders. To begin, we’re starting with the country we, Lucuma Designs, is working in – Peru.
….“With Peru’s amazing bio-diversity, people in Peru have been lucky and privileged to enjoy and take medicinal plants and natural medicine for thousands of years. Herbal doctors, “curanderos” and/or shamans of all kinds are widely available. And according to our latest survey, over half of our artists, especially in the rural areas trust and use their services regularly. …..
Continue Reading Add comment December 7, 2009
