About us

First of all I want to thank you for taking the effort to visit this site and giving me the opportunity to introduce myself. Just like many other people I have in the course of years begun to look and see what's happening in the world around me. After going on holidays to sparkling places I began to travel to more distant places and the interest in other cultures complete got me in its grip. In Europe, America, Africa and Asia, I have experienced beautiful things. Every trip is a story in it self and has had extremely varied influences on my view of the standards and values of our present society. Years ago the “saint land” of India was on my wishlist. Despite the fact that many people told me that it was a difficult country to travel through I took the challenge anyway. The culture is so different that many speak of a culture shock when they enter the country. Fortunately I myself haven't had this problem and felt quickly at ease with the “busy” Indian people. The beautiful palaces and forts, which are situated in the large cities, are certainly worth a visit, but my interest went more to the local population. If I wanted to learn the “real” India I had to go to the countryside. Here the influence of the rich western world is yet scarcely noticeably and the large differences between rich and poor is clearly manifested in this enormously large country. However unfair it may be....these are the facts.

Something that struck me was the desire to work and the expertise the people have to produce beautiful products with, in our eyes, primitive tools. India is also a country full of artists. Only look at the Taj Mahal, one of the wonders of the world in Agra. Though most of the villagers will get a number of year's elementary education, studying further is too expensive, so many boys and girls learn the craft from their parents. In this way the workmanship gets passed on from generation to generation and you will see that every town has developed his own specialty. Unfortunately these products will be bought by companies from the cities for way too low prices who will resell them to various buyers world-wide with large profits. This is also one of the reasons that the gap between rich and poor in this beautiful country increasingly grows.

That's why I want to devote myself for the local population. Not by just giving them money but by buying their products directly and putting a share of the profit back into projects for the community. With this a whole village can benefit from it and they themselves give prosperity to the community in which they live. To achieve an as high as possible output you can order the products via the Internet only. You will get a beautiful product for an attractive price and in the meantime support one or more projects immediately in the poor districts of India. Thanks for your attention!

Who I actually am? Oh......I really almost forget to tell you.

My name is Eugen de Boer, 43 years old and a resident of the west frisian town of Oosterblokker in The Netherlands,

Pleased to meet you