As we begin the week running up to World Fair Trade Day on May 14th, I thought to share an example of how we do fair trade in MESH. The...

MESH was 40 years old last year! We had grand plans to celebrate but the pandemic put paid to that so we have slipped into the 41st year...

Recently, when we were recruiting a designer for MESH, I was most interested to see work in the candidates’ portfolios on two subjects;...

IM Swedish Development Partner wanted to buy some bags that could be used for a campaign they were running and Thomas asked if MESH could...

Yesterday evening I received a stash of pictures and videos from a disabled people’s organization (DPO) called Divyang Adikar Manch way...

In India, if you are poor and have a child with disabilities the chances are you will have to face a whole host of disappointments and...

Anna Mary (right in the picture) lives in Anandagram, a leprosy community in Delhi. She is a member of the Mahila Mandal (Women’s...

I wonder if you have ever seen those lovely painted boxes from Kashmir, and wondered about them. Each one is hand painted, the most...

An Unsettling Preface My colleague Gabriel, had collected the interview with Panna (pictured above) and whilst I brought it together for...

Like a Typhoon Take a walk across India with me as we try and share the news we have from the groups that supply handicrafts to MESH. By...

The thing with hand-woven cotton in India is that we have been spoilt; we just take it for granted. If you tell a foreigner that this...

For the longest time we had a three triangle chart up on the wall in our office saying REUSE, REDUCE AND RECYCLE. I got it, understood...

During the lockdown last year in March and April one of my sillier worries was disposing of our rubbish. I live in a flat in Delhi, if...

Take some chunks of wood and place them in the hands of a skilled block maker, add dashes of different colours and it is possible to turn...

During the lockdown in March and April 2020 the MESH team contacted each of our producer groups to find out how they were managing and...

When we in MESH brought together our range of festival gifts we were wondering what the response will be. Lots of people are out of work,...