CBI Presents: Selyn
Meet Seetha Ekanayake (Local Entrepreneur) and Sandra Wanduragala (Founder) of Selyn. Selyn is the winner of the CBI SME Award – People 2013
Fair-trade certified Selyn is a manufacturer of handloom textiles and textile-based children’s toys. This company has invested in Sri Lankan communities by harnessing the skills of people in rural areas and thus helping them to improve their living standards. It has also positively impacted the lives of over 1,000 women. Now, having developed its own “Selyn Fair Trade Model” the company applies 10 Fair Trade principles across its complete operational base.
Selyn was part of a CBI programme which lasted about 4 years. The programme was designed to strengthen the competitive capacity of producers and exporters from development countries.
Paroles de partenaire - Selyn - Sri Lanka
Integrating Fairtrade in a handloom company in Sri Lanka
Selyn is a Social and Solidarity Economy initiative founded in 1991 by Sandra Wanduragala. Sri Lanka’s only Fair Trade guaranteed Handloom company that engages the traditional Sri Lankan community of Handloom weavers in bringing to you products handmade with 100% cotton and infinite measures of skill and devotion.
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Street Style : Mandeera Saverimuttu
‘Miss Working Girl’ title winner of 2014, Mandeera’s style is a juxtapose between smart and comfortable.
“Ideally, my signature outfit would be a knee length shift dress. I feel like it’s an outfit you can wear at any time of the day with the right shoes and the hairdo. And you can always just spice it up with a little bit of accessories”
This week on street style, Mandeera takes us through her style picks for every occasion in life.
Video by Kanishke Ganewatte
Produced & Edited by Zeeshan Akram Jabeer
Connecting Producers to Markets - Sri Lanka
Have you met the women and men driving Sri Lanka’s traditional industries? Small-scale producers are at the heart of some of Sri Lanka’s best-established industries – like agriculture, fisheries and crafts. MDF works with the private sector to connect these producers to the ‘big’ markets of export and tourism. Enjoy our latest video!
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Candy Maker from Sri Lanka
Immigrants from all over the world come to Taiwan, where they strive to start a new life in a different culture. In the latest part of our ongoing series, let''s take a look at Charitha Bandara from Sri Lanka, who hopes to expand his Taiwan-based family-run candy business into the global market. This is Taiwan’s largest candy factory. Its manager is CharithaBandara from Sri Lanka. He is married to a Taiwanese woman and has lived in Taiwan for six years. Facing the increasing threat of cheap competition from China, CharithaBandarais hoping to expand his sales inMuslim countries.Charitha BandaraSri Lankan ImmigrantI want to go to Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, along with parts of Thailand and the Philippinesthat are all Muslim. So we definitely want Halal certification to make it easier to sell our products in these nations.In his personal life, CharithaBandara is both something of a technology geek and a romantic. He and his wife live in a chalet in the mountains of greater Taichung, where every day feels like a holiday. Yan Chen-iWife of CharithaBandaraOriginally I was studying in the United States. For my first summer vacation, I travelled to Paris on my own. I met him there and then I decided to stay on in Paris.CharithaBandaraImmigrant from Sri LankaLater on, her parentsasked me to come and take a look at Taiwan.After I came to visit I found Taiwan was pretty good! Bandara and his wife have traveled to more than 40 countries. They decided to settle in Taiwan, and are now transforming theircandy business, considered a traditional industry on the brink of extinction, into a global export empire.
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Manufacturer and whole seller of Handloom products in Srilanka. Here you will find a collection of all types of Handlooms product such as fabrics, sarongs, sarees, shawls, beach wrap, and ladies tops.We do free deliver to anywhere in Srilanka. We hope you enjoy wearing Handloom product @East Star Handlooms.
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Handloom Sector Sri Lanka A Discussion
NEDA Handloom Sector Program
Handloom Industry in Sri Lanka - www.growlanka.com
Handloom is one of the oldest crafts in Sri Lanka with a history of over two thousand years. Vibrant colours, exotic designs and superior quality of Sri Lankan handloom products have won a considerable mindshare particularly among tourists and in the international market. Despite the large-scale producers winning the international market, a number of problems have mired the prospects of many small-scale rural based handloom manufacturers such as those in Batticaloa. growlanka.com
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