SHARING IS CARING "We only have one book so we sit together in class and we take turns when reading" Jay Poudal, the photographer behind Stories Of Nepal met these 3 little fellas on one of his trips traveling around documenting life in Nepal. Kids not having schoolbooks & proper learning material is a major issue here in Nepal. If you want to support the kids at Maya Universe Academy with books, staples or others things they need, please send an e-mail to abareness@abareness.com One time a year we go there to follow up on our "Give Back" project We buy the material ourselves & brings it to the school to make sure no money is wasted on administration or other things. http://www.abareness.com/give-back See more pics & stories www.storiesofnepal.com |
Saturday 27 September 2014
Stories of Nepal
Friday 26 September 2014
...If you only IMAGINE...
We love streetart! Imagine, or Sneha Shrestha which is her real name, is one of the street artists here in Nepal and her art can be spotted on different walls all around the Kathmandu valley. Her signature style is to write different words & messages in Devanagari using her signature calligraphy style. Love it! Devanagari is the nepali and (hindu!) alphabet/script which I know how to read, all though VEEEEEERY slooooowly, like a 6-year old learning to read for the very first time. Haha :) Check out more from Imagine on her blog her: https://snehashrestha.wordpress.com/tag/kathmandu-street-art/ and her FB- Page her: https://www.facebook.com/imagine876?fref=ts Karoline x |
Sunday 21 September 2014
Thursday 18 September 2014
CULTURAL DIVERSITY BY STYLE
When in Nepal, everyday & everywhere
we go we see nepali women
wearing beautiful jewellery which
is also a symbol of wealth.
Each tribe has their own style
so if you know what to look for you can tell
wich tribe they belong to by having
a glimpse on the
jewellery they are wearing.
Yellow gold is
definitely the most popular precious metal, but
just recently we got to learn that
there is actually one tribe down south that
only wears silver ( bottom pic )
Interesting.
Have to look more into that later
on.
One thing all the tribes have in common,
is a gold or silver amulet that is worn to
to ward off evil spirits.
The jewellery also reflects creativity
and special skills of the artisans who
have been crafting these ornaments
for generations.
Keeping these traditions alive
is one of the main reasons we work
with handmade jewellery.
Man over machine.
Slow Fashion Love from
Karoline & Anne-Marthe
Wednesday 17 September 2014
We've been blogged!
Fashion By Norway is a concept blog highlighting Norwegian fashion, design and culture and now they've been bloggin' about us! See the full post here: http://fashionbynorway.com/2014/09/16/abareness-timeless-and-conscious/ |
Sunday 14 September 2014
** Support Traditional Crafts **
All our jewellery is handmade by local artisans here in Nepal- check out our designs & webshop www.abareness.com |
Friday 12 September 2014
Saturday 6 September 2014
★ DREAMJOB ★ We are on Web TV ★
Catalysta is a newly launched Digizine that aims to collaborate & inspire us to create a career driven by passion & benefit to the common good. Catalysta interviewed and collected footage from ours & 4 other international "Slow Fashion" Fashionistas workday on a monthly basis back in 2013, and taaa daaaah: The video series is here: http://catalysta.org/dream-job/ You can see 2 first episodes of "Dream Job" now and the final 6 episodes will be launched weekly. A big thanks to Catalysta for letting us be a part of this project- We hope you'll find it inspiring too? Karoline & Anne-Marthe x |
Thursday 4 September 2014
★ The Future is In Our Hands ★
Monday 1 September 2014
♥ MOMENTS ♥
When we went to Maya Universe
Academy to make further plans for
our "Give Back" project, I had
a nice morning moment with
one of the families living next to
the spider- infested room in the mud house
I was staying in.
(Thank God I had a mosquito net
to protect me! Not that afraid of spiders, but
fist size spiders 10 cm above the bed?
Eeehem,no thanks ;)
The last day I was there
it was Nepali mother's day
& I had some
fruits that I wanted to give the
neighbor family.
The mother told me her husband died a few years back
so she was alone taking care of the 2 kids.
I let the kiddo borrow my camera
& he took plenty of pics of his mother.
When I had a look at the pictures after
I really think he captured different
emotions of what it's like
to be a mother & a single parent;
The responsibility- The concerns-
The hard work, but then again- The joy!
Simply beautiful.
Next week we are meeting up with one of the
founders of Maya Universe
here in Kathmandu to make further plans for
our project;
Building
bio gas toilets for the students, teachers,
the volunteers & all the
other ones contributing at the
school- it's about
100 people using the 1 toilet they got-
EVERY DAY!! And the
closest water source is literally a
10 minute
hike away as you have to climb a small
hilltop to get to the water tap.
Can you even imagine?
You can read more about our project here:
Karoline x
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