Exhibition in Dharamsala

The exhibition in Dharamsala was aimed at promoting fair trade and provide information about different handicrafts by different producer groups from Dehradun an Dharamsala. Dharamsala being  a tourist place for Indians as well as foreigners is a good place and economical to exhibit the products of IMEX's producer groups. The products not only reaches to the local people but foreigners who frequent Dharamsala. Foreigners who have retail shops in their countries and are interested in buying handmade products.
The products of IMEX, Tibetan Women Centre, Dekyiling Tibetan Handicraft Centre, KKM, Recycle paper unit, Lungta were displayed. This year, two small NGOs namely Rogpa Charitable Trust and Dolls4Tibet from Dharamsala were invited  to display their products. Even though they are not a member of fair trade, Mona who heads the Dolls4Tibet organization is aware of the fair trade requirements and have collected lots of information on fair trade. Their respective websites are: www.tibetrogpa.org and www.dolls4tibet.com.
Till now, Mona has been selling her products on a consignment basis to small shops such as Green Shop of Recycle Paper unit TCV Handicrafts shops in Dharamsala and has never participated in any exhibition. The exhibition proved helpful in creating more awareness about her products and organization. She was thankful for having organized such exhibition for small producer groups.
None of the participants had to pay for their stall. The exhibition was a part of the project run by IMEX. One of the members expressed his wish to organize such exhibition in Delhi but it is very expensive to participate in exhibition organized by other organization.