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Eco-friendly sustainable sourced handmade hard wood furniture products brought directly from the artisans in:
New Zealand
Australia
India
Tibet
Indonesia
Thailand
China
Philippines
Malaysia
Peru
Guatemala
Plus many more

Products:
Mahogany, teak, and sheesham furniture made from government plantation and recycled timbers
Wall units
TV cabinets
Chest of draws
Wooden display cabinets
Musical instruments
Exotic crafts
Candle making supplies, wax, wick, dyes, molds and candle making kits
Incense sticks and cones sandalwood nag champa etc
Essential oils
Clothing: silk, ethnic, kurtas, gypsy skirts, sarongs etc
Natural palm wax tea lights and dinner candles
Natural balms
Vegetable soaps with essential oils
Candles and candle holders
Tibetan furniture and jewellery
Sterling silver jewellery with semi precious stones
Bags
Tie dyed bedspreads
Hand made wooden boxes
Hand blown glass
Fused glass
Wooden elephants
Plus heaps more
 

The ethics and political effect of dealing with the developing countries are matters that we at Kotare Kraft’s take very seriously.

Although a profit organization and not formally linked with any charity group, we strongly believe in the benefit of trade in village craft, where on average a $100 of sales gives 3 days of work to the maker.

Although the majority of what we sell is from developing countries, we have New Zealand craft and a world perspective.

In general most Kotare stock comes from villages, providing much needed income in areas where there are not many options. Pay is of course appalling by New Zealand standards, but good by local standards. The fact that money can be earned locally has the effect of reducing the flow of people from their traditional living areas into the big cities. This allows them to improve living conditions, educational and health options of their children.

All traditional societies give children responsibilities and involve children in their creative processes such as dance, music, weaving and artefact production. While not believing that a factory is a suitable place for a child, and not buying this type of work.

We have direct dealings with the artisans in nearly all cases and set up systems involving a local with an office and packing and export experience, to coordinate and pay for supplier's shipments after checking the work against our instructions.

Some of the people we buy from have their own charity systems in place where part of every sale goes towards feeding and educating children for example:
Goloka Nagchmapa Agarbathi Incense

Light up an incense stick, and put a smile on the face of a hungry child!

Every packet of Goloka incense you buy, will help spread the fragrance in an under privileged child's life as,  part of the sales proceeds go to fund the Akshaya Patra free mid-day meal programme for less fortunate children in India.

As of January 2007, Akshaya Patra is providing 535,557 hygienic and nutritious meals every day through an extremely cost-effective, secular program in different locations across India.

And another company we buy from in India is also helping under privileged kids

 

OUR COMMITMENT TO SOCIETY:
All our products are hand made and we feel proud that our business is now supporting more than ten thousand families in India. Most of the production is done by family members at their own homes, at their own convenience. We make sure that they are all very well paid.