Dear all

First, we are delighted to announce the birth of our daughter, on 3 August 08 at 2.23am, in Newham General hospital. We have named her Aira Miyazaki-Khadga. “Aira” in Japanese means “love” and “good”. Both mother and baby are healthy and are doing well. Mai and I would like to thank all our friends for their kind messages of congratulations, lovely cards and presents.

In the third week of July, at the invitation of Graham and Liz, we had the pleasure of visiting Hereford. It is lovely to get out of London once in a while and to visit countryside. Graham, Liz and their son Dillon had spent a month at KTS and did a few treks in Nepal in 2007. They were kind to organise a slide show of their experience while my sister Karuna Khadgi, KTS Principal was visiting them, and invited Comolongmo to set up a stall (please click here to see the photo) with our products. They had hired a town hall, and even provided Nepalese food for guests to experience. The event was a huge success, with more than 150 people attending – they were expecting about 50! Our huge thanks to Graham and Liz for their kind hospitality and sharing their KTS experience with us and some of the people of Hereford, and of course for taking care of Karuna. Also we would like to thank those who attended the event for shopping with us and for their kind donations of £480. As a reminder, I would, of course, be happy to advise and assist anyone who would be willing to host a similar event in their local region, where I would be delighted to share a slide show of the history of KTS. Please do contact me if you feel you can help.

In our 3rd newsletter I wrote that KTS would be 25 years this year. I am pleased to say that, to mark this milestone, we are organising a Fair at Greenwich market from 29 Oct – 2 Nov 2008. We would like to thank Greenwich Hospital Trust and Urban Space Management for their kind support and help with organising the Fair.

Also we would like to thank the following schools - Black Heath High School, St Ursula Convent, Bow School, Sydenham School and Brompton College – who aretaking part in the Fair and helping with fundraising. It is particularly pleasing for us to involve younger people with the Fair Trade movement.

We have organised the following programmes for the Fair:

1. SPINNING AND WEAVING WORKSHOPS

We have a professional spinner and weaver visiting from KTS for the Fair to give demonstrations of spinning yarn and weaving rugs. We plan to have three spinning wheels and three looms and hope to have interactive demonstrations of rug weaving and spinning at which visitors can try their hand.

2. THE RUG DESIGN COMPETITION

We have a rug design competition for pupils of the schools taking part. We will select the four best designs and convert them into rugs. Visitors to the Fair will be able to vote for their favourite from among these four, and the designer of that rug will be awarded it as a prize.

3. PAPERCRAFT

We have supplied hand made paper to the schools for pupils to take part in a paper-craft competition. All the work will be displayed and sold. The funds raised will go towards the KTS.

We will be awarding a prize for each of the two best works.

4. SECONDMENT FOR A WORK EXPERIENCE AT KTS

We are hoping to offer two pupils the opportunity to go to Nepal to see the impact that KTS has on life of individuals in Nepal.

We are delighted to say that the KTS Founder Chairman, Mr Siddhi Bahadur Khadgi, and his wife and other guests will be attending from KTS and will be on hand to share their experiences and answer questions. For more details on the Fair programmes please click the link.

I hope you will be able to attend the Fair, which I am sure will be most enjoyable and rewarding, and I would be very grateful if you could please invite all your family and friends.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends for the help and support we are receiving in organising the fair. As always, a large part of our work relies on your support. If you feel you may be able to help with the Fair, do please write to us. In particular, we need volunteers to help with the stalls, spinning and weaving workshops, fund raising and many other tasks to ensure things run smoothly!

Please do not hesitate to write to me if you have any queries directly at Kabindra@comolongmo.com.

Thank you and I look forward to seeing you in Greenwich market.

Comolongmo family
www.comolongmo.com
Email: info@comolongmo.com

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