Foreword

As business owners, we are aware of the growing concern over packaging waste. Consumers are becoming increasingly conscious of the environmental impact of excessive packaging, and they are more likely to choose eco-friendly companies. In this article, we will offer our practical tips on how to reduce your packaging waste.

Yeah, they're quite a couple! Sankara and Leonard work 4 km from Ouaga. They arrived at my hostel where we were supposed to meet, perfectly on time.

Gundara is living fair principles.

Our production process is transparent. We connect our clients to our producers as much as possible.

Fair trade has various definitions and degrees around the world. With Gundara a high percentage (about one third) of the sales price of the leather bags goes directly back to the producers in Kabul, Afghanistan.
To make this even more transparent, we now introduced our “fairness level” indicator, showing for each product what percentage goes back to the producers or the country of origin in general.

Patus are hand-woven wool plaids or light blankets, in our case, from Swat valley in Western Pakistan. In South Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan or North India) patus are the alternative to a winter jacket.