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The Village Shop |
Our village shop is small and we plan to keep it that
way. No big-city shopping mall for us where it takes an hour to walk from your car to the
entrance! It's in a quiet little village with cobblestone lanes on the bank of
a lazy river below green rolling hills. Yes, we'd like to live there too.
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browse around. You may find something
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E-Commerce / Online Markets for Indigenous Products This is a UN
Volunteer effort that lists organizations helping indigenous people sell
their crafts and wares.
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PeaceShoppe. This
website has a good list of websites where you can buy traditional and
nontraditional gift that will benefit good projects and charities.
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Peoplink. They
help grassroots artisans in Latin America, Asia and Africa to sell their
handcrafted wares directly to consumers. They have a wonderful online
catalog. Thanks to the good work of Peoplink, about half their trading
partners now have their own websites.
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Novica.
Another
global community of over 1,700 empowered
artisans and enthusiastic consumers, in association with National Geographic.
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The Forest
Foundation. The Forest Foundation is a
non-profit group that promotes sustainable livelihoods. They provide green
business assistance to entrepreneurs. They both give grants to such
entrepreneurs and help them establish their business but also sell their
products. (see their
About page for more details.)
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Fair Trade
Federation. FTF is an
association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose
members are committed to ensure that fair wages and good employment
opportunities are available to artisans and farmers in developing countries
around the world.
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To
all Travelers and Tourists |
| Take a minute out of
your life on this planet and enjoy some travel wisdom.
Here are some of our favorites: |
"Travel is fatal to
prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
-Mark
Twain
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"The world is a book
and those who do not travel read only one page." -
St. Augustine
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"He who would travel happily must travel light."
-Antoine
de Saint-Exupery
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"One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks,
is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown
lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of
habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many
cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more
happy"
-Sir
Richard Burton, the explorer
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"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about
other countries." -
Aldous Huxley
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More
Famous Travel
Quotations |
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travel quotations to ponder at.... |
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itravelnet.com |
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NonstopEnglish |
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Proverbia.net |
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