During my first few weeks in Nepal, I wrote a blog about my visit to New Sadle, the handicraft production house and rehabilitation centre for people living with leprosy and polio. Since then, I've been waiting for another experience that impacts me as much as that one did, but everything seems to have fallen short. Perhaps this is because New Sadle was my first time witnessing development work 'on the ground' or maybe it was just because the people I met there were truly the most inspirational I'll ever meet. Unfortunately, in the months that followed this visit, I started to lose the passion for development work that had been so tremendously fuelled by New Sadle. In the last few weeks, I've been stoking and rekindling that fire by visiting other fair trade member organizations and photographing their products for the catalogue. Last week was the first time since my New Sadle experience that I visited an actual production house, and while it didn't have quite the same impact on me, I saw and learned a ton of new and cool things!
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