Green Options » nepali http://greenoptions.com/tag/nepali Posts tagged 'nepali' Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:10:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Yearn-Worthy Yarns: Mango Moon http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/02/07/yearn-worthy-yarns-mango-moon/ http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/02/07/yearn-worthy-yarns-mango-moon/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:10:34 +0000 Victoria Everman http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/02/07/yearn-worthy-yarns-mango-moon/ Mango Moon YarnsReduce, Reuse, Recycle: Michigan based Mango Moon Yarns takes the last two steps of that now infamous eco-mantra to another level. Working with the Nepali Women’s Empowerment Group, Mango Moon creates unspeakably vivid yarns made from recycled fibers.

The N-WEG, an NGO organization, welcomes abused women to their shelter, where they harness their native knitting and spinning skills to “rebuild their lives, while continuing to care for their children. Proceeds provide a safe shelter, health care, education and the dignity of financial independence.”

Woven from the yarn of old saris and sarongs, Mango Moon yarns comes in an infinite concoction of colorways.

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