Peoplelink - A nonprofit marketplace benefiting grassroots artisans and their communities by a Cameroon RPCV

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By Admin1 (admin) on Saturday, June 30, 2001 - 9:10 pm: Edit Post

Peoplelink - A nonprofit marketplace benefiting grassroots artisans and their communities by a Cameroon RPCV



Peoplelink - A nonprofit marketplace benefiting grassroots artisans and their communities by a Cameroon RPCV

PEOPLink is a non-profit organization helping talented producers in remote communities all over the world market their products on the Internet. We are building a global network of Trading Partners (TPs) that, in turn, provide services to several community-based artisan producer groups.

Briefly, PEOPLink equips the TPs with digital cameras and trains them to capture images and edit them in a compressed format suitable for transmission via the Internet. We then place images of the crafts on the PEOPLink Web page and promote them to retail and wholesale buyers in the industrialized countries. This same Web page contains ample educational materials, sent to us electronically by the TPs, about the work and lives of the artisans. We also help them build and maintain their own Web catalogs and provide on-line training and product development support. This is direct, people-to-people development!

Structure and History PEOPLink & The Press: Reprints of articles about us from the world press. What We Do Why We Do It Partner Organizations all over the world Action Guide with ways you can participate Source of Educational Materials on world trade and poverty Network of Related Organizations with similar goals Employment, Intern, and Volunteer Opportunities Wholesale Source of crafts and art works Product Review where product designers and producers collaborate across borders and time zones.

The cover of the 1992 United Nations Human Development Report shows a graph in which the richest 20% of the world's population receives 82.7% of the global income while the poorest 60% receives only 5.6%. Yet the same U.N. document opens with the following statement: "The world has a unique opportunity in the current decade to use global markets for the benefit of all nations and people... Markets are the means. Human development is the end."

PEOPLink is an international development agency empowering poor producers to use the Internet to maximize the benefit of world trade.

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By Dotsy Landau (cache-mtc-aa05.proxy.aol.com - 64.12.96.10) on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 1:48 pm: Edit Post

please send me some information about the clothing and jewelry you carry. We have a boutique and I am interested in purchasing from you.
Thanks,
Dotsy Landau
The Pearl in the Oyster Boutique

By Admin1 (admin) (pool-151-196-24-33.balt.east.verizon.net - 151.196.24.33) on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 4:01 pm: Edit Post

Come to the web site here to see what items Peoplelink carries.

Best Regards,


Admin1


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