Introduction of Third World Craft  Online Store

This retail online store is set up by Third World Craft Nepal ( The Fair Trade  Artisan's Marketplace)  to allow global online buying safe and unique experience. This shopping portal is built   to support the promotion of international marketing for the producers/artisans groups. It is  operated under the Third World Craft Development Center, the non-profit organization dedicated to help empower the artisans and disadvantaged women  by equipping them appropriate marketable skills as well as training on modern technologies such as Internet and website development.

Allo (nettle) Weaving	Harvesting Allo Nettle at forest	Felt Producers at Work

 Third World Craft Nepal (TWCN) was established in 1999 AD by Narendra Shahi with a tiny set up of small investment. He had spent 14 years at prominent Nepalese Non profit organization (Nepal Charkha Pracharak ) that was supporting Tulsi Mehar Mahila Ashram orphanage generating income to support women and children. Because of his long term involvement in fair trade , Narendra thought he could multiply his experience to support the needy artisans thus, TWCN came into existence. TWCN started with small number of producers groups now has showcased products from 90 groups and sells both from local shop and online store and wholesale.  When you buy from this site, you get the products on competitive rate with each products hand packed by the artisans him/herself while artisans gets fair prices for his/her products. We provide all information relating to the makers of the products on demand or keep checking our websites for updates.

Buyer  Mr. Present from USA visiting to Third World  Craft Shop.	Glass bead jewelry artisans at work

Third World Craft Nepal strives to promote Nepalese handicraft, furniture, herbal soap and agro based product to local market and overseas thereby, supporting to grass roots artisans/producers of informal sector having difficulties in accessing to global market. Third World Craft Nepal is a socially responsible business that practices  code of conduct of fair and ethical trade, thus, concerns very much for prompt payment to producers, encourage direct access to market and allows client to access producers' information. We build up business relationship on the basis of mutual trust and transparency, practice of business ethics fair trading, performing high level of professionalism in trading and are concerned for well being of  the society, producers and environment.

Third World Craft  has a team of professional people having experience of two decade of fair trade and development  and have worked in number of national and international non profit organizations. TWCN is a founder member of  Artisan Fair Trade Network Nepal, member of Fair Trade Federation , USA, Coop America, USA and also a member of Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal. The technical aspect of the web store is managed by Surendra Shahi, who has over 25 years of experience in international fair trade and development work and current chair person of Third World Craft Development Cener. .