The mission of our social enterprise is to create impact on both social and economic factors of the society in the sustainable way. The long-term social impact is to develop the capacity of local people to build and maintain a healthy, safe, economically prosperous and vibrant society encouraging them to participate in social entrepreneurship and establishing SMEs, which will eventually help in reducing poverty from the society by developing sustainable employment. We also hope to build long-term positive collaborative relationships with the existing local, national and international markets to promote the craft business.

Our enterprise creates revenue by selling the handicrafts that are produced in Nepal. At present the products are being sold in the UK market, hoping to go internationally in the near future. We sell the crafts that are of high-quality and with reasonable prices. The main difference between us and other enterprises or competitors is that we are social entrepreneurs who care about society and we aim to work towards making the healthy society reducing poverty from it.

The social enterprise has to be sustainable financially. The profits earned from the business will be re-invested as well as the external grants plus the investors are highly welcomed for the sustainability of the enterprise.

The products and items that are dealt with are:

1. Brass, Bronze and Copper Idols or objects (casted and moulded)
2. Bronze Singing Bowls
3. Metal crafts and Jewelleries- handicrafts and souvenir items, silver rings, bracelets and other ornaments, gold gilded jewelleries and others
4. Crafts with semi-precious and precious stones fitted in metal craft, decorative items
5. Cashmere, Pashmina Shawls, Scarf and other apparels
6. Typical pattern clothing and apparels
7. Nepalese Hand-made papers and paper products, masks and paper-maches
8. Wood- carving products
9. Pottery products
10. Crafts with Mithila Arts
11. Felt Items
12. Handicrafts made of animal horns, bones etc

 

Names of some of the unique and exclusive Nepalese items, community or segment of society involved or engaged in and the regions, localities and places of manufacturing and of beneficiaries.

No.	Items	Community Involved	Source/Produced Regions, Locations or Socio-Economic Impact Regions
1.	Metal Crafts: Water drinking pot/ jar (Karuwa), Bronze singing Bowls, metal casted and moulded idols, miniature temples, engraved wall-pictures, trays, ash-trays, candle stand, oil –fed lamp-stand, wire/liquor pots, flower-vases, photo frames, decorative items, souvenirs items, Bajras (Thunderbolt), prayer wheels, models of Gods and Goddesses etc.	Tamrakar, Shilpkar (Special/specific local communities) elaborated above in the “Beneficiaries and Target Group.”	Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Palpa, Bhojpur, Chainpur (Tehrathum), Dharan, Pokhara (Kaski)
2.	Jewelleries and ornaments; Silver rings, brackets, ear-rings & tops, silver & gold gilted jewelleries, some precious and precious stones and corals fitted jewelleries etc.	Shaya-Banda, Sunar- Biswakarma, Silakar	Kathmandu, Patan, Bhaktapur, Palpa
3.	Formidable knife of Nepal - KHUKURI	Local Kami (Blacksmith) Biswakarma	Kathmandu, Patan, Taplejung, Tehrathum,Panchthar, Bhojpur, Sallyan, Dang.
4.	Nepalese woolen carpet; special Nepalese and Tibetan design & pattern	Nepalese indigenous laborers- Sherpas and Kathmanduits, Tibetain Refugeas staying in Nepal	Kathmandu, Patan (Ekanta Kuna), Kaski (Hyanja), Chyalsa (Solukhumbu), Northern Himalaya Districts.
5.	Cashemere Pasmina Shawls, Scarfs and other apparels	Special Newar community weavers	Kathmandu, Kirtipur, Bhaktapur & Patan
6.	Special Dhaka clothings and apparels; Palpali, Pokhareli and Limbuwan indigenous traditional pattern.	a) Mostly deprived and discarded women, divorced by husbands and widows b) Rai & Limbu women	Palpa, Pokhara, Dhankuta, Taplejung, Tehrathum, Panchthor
7.	Hemp / Wild vegetable products; Handbags, shoulderbags, table-mats, purses, caps & apparels	Women enterprises local ethnic people of east Nepal	Kathmandu, Patan, Nepalgunj (Banke), Bardiya, Sankhuwasabha,
8.	Clothings & Apparels; Tablemats, Decorative items, sofa-cover, pillow-cover, table-cover, dolls, cotton and woolen shoulder-bags and purses crazy hats, handicraft items etc.	Local people, discarded deprived and unemployed women communities of different parts and regions of the country	Kathmandu, Patan, Nepalgunj (Banke), Bardiya, Sankhuwasabha, Kailali,Taplejung, Dhanakuta
9.	Paper crafts & Paper-Mache products; Special Nepalese (Rice & wild vegetables. fibre) handmade papers stationary articles, grating cards decorative papers, calendars, maskes etc	Local Indigenous people and some industrial enter prises	Dolakha, Ramechhap, Okhaldhunga, Nuwakot, Baglung, Parbat, Kathmandu, Patan
10.	Wood crafts & wood carving items; Photo frames, miniature of temples, idols and different figures, wooden masks, plates etc	Silakar, Tamang, Shakyas and other Local people	Patan, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, Ramechhap, Kavre, Janakpur
11.	Thanka Painting; decorative wall paintings of life cycle and mandaps, mandalas, tantras and life cycle of Buddha etc	Tamangs, local artists	Kathmandu, Kavre, Ramechhap, Patan
12.	Others; Bead works- Malas & Bracelets Rudrakshya malas, Embroidery works, Stone sculpture, Ritual objects etc.	Muslim communities Local handicrafts - people	Kathmandu, Patan, Bhaktapur.

At the current phase we are concentrated and focused in some selected few items only (because of limited financial resources and least exploited market). It is being carried out as a pilot program penetrating through the European market. In the long run the areas and coverage will be broader and widen expanding and diversifying the items and markets (areas).