… for the first food festival in Kathmandu was great fun for everyone and the cooperation between the women from all the villages worked well. The aim was to publicise traditional dishes with local products from Solukhumbu in Kathmandu.
Representatives from organisations that want to promote organic farming or have access to the relevant market segment were also invited.
Many thanks to Fair Styria for supporting the cooperative’s marketing activities.
… of the cooperative is already being taken over independently by the leadership team from all 4 villages. For the third time, the team accompanied the strategy days together with Carola Gosch. Achievements are proudly presented, experiences are exchanged and possibilities for the future are discussed.
We are very proud of the good co-operation between the women and are sure that the cooperative will continue to work well in the future.
Many thanks to the Schöck Family Foundation for its long-term support of the farms and the cooperative.
… the women from the co-operative have been coming together to present their products. A variety of vegetables, seeds and traditional dishes are presented and awarded prizes. This event, which is always attended by government representatives, increases the appreciation of organic farming.
Many thanks to the Schöck Family Foundation for supporting the farms.
… and cooking together are an essential part of all celebrations. It starts the day before, everyone brings something, we cut, cook, laugh and gossip together.
This exchange is important in order to master difficult situations together.
Many thanks to Fair Styria for supporting this project.
… for the best of the village. The women were duly honoured at the meeting of the cooperative. They shared their experiences with the others. We are sure that the women will continue to work well in the future, even without external support.
Many thanks to the Schöck Family Foundation for its long-term support of this project.
… in Merangding. The women not only distributed the traditional flower wreaths, they also cooked in advance and prepared everything perfectly. We really enjoyed exchanging ideas in this pleasant atmosphere. It’s great to see how the women stick together and put what they have learnt into practice.
This fantastic work is only possible thanks to the support of the Schöck Family Foundation, for which we are very grateful.
… is in great demand, especially at small markets. This is also a test run to see which products are accepted and how.
The aim is to find ‘fans’ for the organic products, who can also be supplied directly by the co-operative in future.
In future, products will also be sold via the website www.solusisters.org.
Many thanks to Fair Styria for supporting this important project.
… is the idea of processing pumpkins. Until now, some of them were eaten but most were fed to the animals. They grow everywhere, even on slopes that cannot be used for other vegetables. Now they are collected from all the villages and processed in Ghunsa.
Dried and possibly as flour, they can be used for soups, curries, but also bread and cakes. The market for these long-life products is to be developed, especially in the accommodation centres on trekking routes and in Kathmandu.
Many thanks to Fair Styria, which supports the marketing of the products.
… the co-operative’s managers can now generate and print out important lists and documents on their computers. Each model farm was given a computer and a printer for this purpose. The managers meet regularly and familiarise themselves with the work together. It’s also more fun ?
It is not easy for the women to make friends with the medium, but it helps them to take over the management of the cooperative themselves.
Harvests can be recorded for marketing purposes, applications can be made to the authorities and the accounts can be kept.
We are proud of the great results and thank Schöck Family Foundation for the financial support of the co-operative and its model farms.
… local skills and opportunities means training the women so that they can sew the girls’ school dresses themselves in future. After the compulsory part, there is also training for other women’s clothing, which they are of course particularly pleased about.
For the first time, the school dresses for our approximately 140 girls will be sewn by the women of the cooperative.
This creates another opportunity to generate income but also to sew for the family. Each model farm has a sewing workshop that is available to the women.
We would like to congratulate and thank our sponsors for supporting the girls and their mothers.
