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PORTSMOUTH, NH (September 2007) Mamacuna Traders, LLC, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire company, has launched a retail Internet site, www.mamacuna.com for the sale of global handcrafts and Fair Trade products. The site features home décor items such as baskets, ceramics, table ware, statues, lighting, bedding and a variety of handbags, jewelry, hats, scarves, and belts. Handcrafts from Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal, Indonesia, Ghana, Swaziland, Kenya, Uganda, Thailand, and Vietnam are all represented on the site.
Many of the handcrafts are produced by organizations that are Fair Trade Certified and several are within the certification process for fair trade practices in their various countries. They receive fair compensation for their products by wholesalers and retailers. Mamacuna Traders provides up to 50% of the cost of production up-front to help the artisans buy supplies. The Fair Trade Federation is an association of wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are fully committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide. For more information on the FTF, logo onto www.fairtradefederation.org.
"We were inspired to start an import business, while on vacation in Peru, earlier this spring," Laura Burgess, President and Co-Owner of Mamacuna Traders. “The handcrafts we’ve received from the various Fair Trade artisan groups are steps above any tourist items in quality and detail. Plus, working with Fair Trade organizations and artisan groups practicing Fair Trade concepts, assures us that as a company we are making strides in helping to lift disenfranchised men and women out of poverty throughout the world. Many of the handcrafts created by these artists would slowly disappear if it wasn’t for the efforts of organizations and retailers, like Mamacuna Traders, to bring them to market.”
Every month, Mamacuna Traders will feature a new handcrafted doll from around the world. For the month of September the featured doll comes from Guatemala. The site will also provide information on an artist or artisan group. September features Malindi Handcrafts out of Kenya, Africa. The cooperative is owned and operated by member woodcarvers with a full 80% of its profits returned to its members. The Featured Non-Profit page will take a portion of the sale price of a particular product to help a special cause anywhere in the world. Mamacuna’s first non-profit featured is U.S.A. based DonorsChoose, an organization that engages individual citizens in an online marketplace where teachers describe and individuals can fund specific student projects partially or completely. The DonorsChoose program will run through November 2007 with the purchase of any Baby Alpaca Teddy Bear from Peru at www.mamacuna.com.
For more information on Mamacuna Traders, LLC or any of its products, log onto www.mamacuna.com or call 603-436-1748. To stay on top of what’s happening at Mamacuna Traders, LLC check out the blog at www.mamacuna.blogspot.com.
About Mamacuna Traders™, LLC:
Mamacuna Traders, LLC was founded in March 2007 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire as an Internet retail site for globally sourced handcrafts and Fair Trade products.
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Laura Burgess
603-436-1748
laura@mamacuna.com
Mamacuna Traders™, LLC: Launches Internet Site for Handcrafts and Fair Trade Goods
PORTSMOUTH, NH (September 2007) Mamacuna Traders, LLC, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire company, has launched a retail Internet site, www.mamacuna.com for the sale of global handcrafts and Fair Trade products. The site features home décor items such as baskets, ceramics, table ware, statues, lighting, bedding and a variety of handbags, jewelry, hats, scarves, and belts. Handcrafts from Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal, Indonesia, Ghana, Swaziland, Kenya, Uganda, Thailand, and Vietnam are all represented on the site.
Many of the handcrafts are produced by organizations that are Fair Trade Certified and several are within the certification process for fair trade practices in their various countries. They receive fair compensation for their products by wholesalers and retailers. Mamacuna Traders provides up to 50% of the cost of production up-front to help the artisans buy supplies. The Fair Trade Federation is an association of wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are fully committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide. For more information on the FTF, logo onto www.fairtradefederation.org.
"We were inspired to start an import business, while on vacation in Peru, earlier this spring," Laura Burgess, President and Co-Owner of Mamacuna Traders. “The handcrafts we’ve received from the various Fair Trade artisan groups are steps above any tourist items in quality and detail. Plus, working with Fair Trade organizations and artisan groups practicing Fair Trade concepts, assures us that as a company we are making strides in helping to lift disenfranchised men and women out of poverty throughout the world. Many of the handcrafts created by these artists would slowly disappear if it wasn’t for the efforts of organizations and retailers, like Mamacuna Traders, to bring them to market.”
Every month, Mamacuna Traders will feature a new handcrafted doll from around the world. For the month of September the featured doll comes from Guatemala. The site will also provide information on an artist or artisan group. September features Malindi Handcrafts out of Kenya, Africa. The cooperative is owned and operated by member woodcarvers with a full 80% of its profits returned to its members. The Featured Non-Profit page will take a portion of the sale price of a particular product to help a special cause anywhere in the world. Mamacuna’s first non-profit featured is U.S.A. based DonorsChoose, an organization that engages individual citizens in an online marketplace where teachers describe and individuals can fund specific student projects partially or completely. The DonorsChoose program will run through November 2007 with the purchase of any Baby Alpaca Teddy Bear from Peru at www.mamacuna.com.
For more information on Mamacuna Traders, LLC or any of its products, log onto www.mamacuna.com or call 603-436-1748. To stay on top of what’s happening at Mamacuna Traders, LLC check out the blog at www.mamacuna.blogspot.com.
About Mamacuna Traders™, LLC:
Mamacuna Traders, LLC was founded in March 2007 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire as an Internet retail site for globally sourced handcrafts and Fair Trade products.
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