Local Craft Centre

The Local Craft Centre is an initiative focused on women's empowerment and the preservation of Nepal's rich artistic heritage. We provide local women with the training, resources, and platform they need to turn traditional crafting skills into a sustainable livelihood.

At the centre, women learn and perfect techniques in weaving, sewing, and creating other handmade goods. GSN helps market these beautiful, authentic products to tourists and supporters, ensuring the artisans receive a fair wage for their work. This project not only fosters economic independence but also builds confidence and strengthens the social fabric of the community, all while celebrating local culture.

Impact and Future Goals

It has always been the vision of GSN to provide a Community Craft Centre in a central position where women can use traditional craft skills to make attractive products such as baskets, handbags and purses, soft toys, paper products, locally grown turmeric spice and honey, and many other hand-crafted items. This will mean carrying on traditional skills which may otherwise be lost, and provide a sustainable means of living to the women.

Objective: To build a Community Craft Centre on land owned by the GSN, near the Bus Park in Sauraha. Who will Benefit. Mainly local, marginalized women and their families, but also the GSN where profits may go towards other Projects Products: Basket ware, silk scarves, stuffed toys, hand-painted cards and stationery using Nepalese motifs, Elephant Dung paper products, Lokta paper products, hand-carved wooden animals of the jungle, Honey, Turmeric spice, Pencil Boxes, Desk Tidies, Hand-painted mirrors, Himalayan Black Tea and Green Tea, Himalayan Coffee