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Welcome to the 22 social enterprises, responsible businesses, and civic organizations that joined the Good Market community in March 2020! This month’s roundup includes new community members from Germany, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The fastest growing network in March was Nepal. More than 1,266 enterprises across 39 countries are now part of the Good Market community. 
See them all at goodmarket.global.
Kathmandu, Nepal
Tyre Treasures is a green enterprise that reduces pollution and the improper disposal of non-biodegradable waste by upcycling tires into well-designed indoor and outdoor furniture, pet beds, urban gardening installations, and home decor. In Nepal, discarded tires are often burnt or thrown into rivers and are major contributors to air, water, and land pollution. Tyre Treasures aims to promote a culture of resource conservation and environmental sustainability in Nepal. In addition to tires, they use locally sourced materials like jute, allo, pater, bamboo, and recycled cotton. They promote local artists and provide alternative livelihood opportunities to women from disadvantaged communities.
www.goodmarket.global/tyretreasures
Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka
Sqrubb specializes in handcrafted bath, body, and home products made from natural, locally sourced ingredients. Their mission is to provide Sri Lankans with budget-friendly alternatives for personal care, wellness, and cleaning products. They offer hand, face, and body soaps made with coconut oil, coffee, chocolate, red rice flakes, honey, carrot, aloe vera, gram flour, neem, Ayurvedic herbs, and activated charcoal. Soaps are available unscented or mildly scented with pure essential oils. Sqrubb also provides affordable dishwash soap, laundry soap, and sugar wax natural hair removal kits.
www.goodmarket.global/sqrubb
Jaipur, India
Mehera Shaw is a fair trade social enterprise that specializes in hand block printed textiles, housewares, women’s clothing, and accessories and supports artisans in the Jaipur region of India. Their commitment to environmentally responsible practices includes using organic certified cotton, ahimsa silk, handloom fabric, vegetable dyes, and azo-free fiber reactive dyes, minimizing waste in pattern layouts, developing upcycled products from post-production scrap fabric, and filtering and recycling water. They also educate customers about conscious consumption, recycling, mending, and wash care for longer garment life. Mehera Shaw sources all raw materials from India and invests in either family owned, cottage industry, or cooperative fabric suppliers. They provide a one-month salary bonus, health insurance, and pension funds for all workers and donate one percent of profits to their sister organization Meher Road Foundation to support skills training for textile artisans in Rajasthan. Mehera Shaw is a member of the World Fair Trade Organization, Fair Trade Federation, Common Objective, Artisan Alliance, and Craftmark.
www.goodmarket.global/meherashaw
Weligama, Sri Lanka
Rise is an Italian restaurant and guesthouse on the southern coast of Sri Lanka that is committed to supporting the local community. The restaurant hires people from the surrounding area and trains them to work in a professional kitchen. Rise specializes in brick oven pizza and Italian food made from fresh, locally sourced ingredients including creamy burrata and buffalo mozzarella. All drinks are made in house. Rise provides free drinking water to all customers and does not sell plastic bottles. The team recycles their own waste and participates in the weekly Weligama beach cleanup organized by Freedom Surf School.
www.goodmarket.global/rise
Kathmandu, Nepal
The Village Cafe is part of SABAH, a social business organization owned and operated by women home-based workers from marginalized communities in Nepal. The restaurant specializes in traditional Newari cuisine made from natural, sustainably sourced ingredients. The Village Cafe’s farm to table model makes it possible to provide fair trade rates to suppliers and affordable prices to consumers. Women from nearby villages grow the ingredients and prepare the food. SABAH provides hygiene and culinary training that enables these home based workers to cook like professionals. The Village brand has also created new market opportunities for locally produced rice, rice flour, mustard oil, spices, and cows’ milk. SABAH members have access to a provident fund, maternity benefits, medical benefits, education, and human development skills. Surplus revenue is reinvested to expand the network.
www.goodmarket.global/thevillagecafe
Bhaktapur, Nepal
Koseli creates natural body, hair, and skincare products from organically grown botanical plants. The name Koseli means “gift” in Nepali because Koseli products are a gift from Nepalese farmers and the earth. Farmers are trained in organic, sustainable land-use and herbal processing at Herb Nepal, an organic farm and training center in Bhaktapur. Herbs are purchased at fair trade prices and used to produce pure steam-distilled essential oils, shampoo bars, beard bars, shaving bars, and body bars. Buying Koseli products supports the farming training program and makes it possible to benefit more people and protect the earth. Koseli is also committed to social inclusion. They have widened walkways, installed ramps, and changed layouts to make the farm and office accessible to wheaelchairs users and other people with disabilities.
www.goodmarket.global/koseli
Kathmandu, Nepal
Higher Ground is a social enterprise that serves youth and women from underprivileged communities in Nepal who are at risk of abuse, exploitation and human trafficking. They support community transformation through awareness, counselling, skill training in beading, knitting, sewing, and design, and fair wage employment. Products include handmade jewelry, jute, hemp, and canvas bags, and accessories. Fifteen percent of every purchase goes to the Higher Ground Community Development Fund to support scholarships for children in need, advocacy and shelter for girls and children at risk, and seed funding for microenterprises to help women gain control of their lives and become financially independent. Higher Ground organizes an annual 5K Fun Run for women on International Women’s Day and works closely with other social welfare organizations to raise awareness about human trafficking in Nepal.
www.goodmarket.global/highergroundnepal
Dehiwala, Sri Lanka
KALU Cosmetics manufactures and distributes natural mineral make-up and skincare that is handcrafted for a wide range of skin colors. They create foundations, concealers, setting powders, bronzers, blush, eye shadow, and lipstick from natural minerals and certified organic plant-based oils. They also offer argan oil, black soap, and rhassoul clay from an ethical supplier in Morocco. All products are developed to be environmentally responsible and free from harmful synthetic ingredients. KALU Cosmetics aims to reduce waste by offering multipurpose products, limiting packaging, and avoiding plastics. They are a PETA Cruelty Free cosmetics and skincare brand.
www.goodmarket.global/kalucosmetics
Colombo, Sri Lanka
TaxAdvisor.lk provides online tax services in Sri Lanka. Their team of chartered accountants assists with tax registration and filing, answers questions online and through SMS, sends mobile alerts with tax updates and deadlines, and shares articles, videos, and reports on tax-related topics. TaxAdvisor.lk encourages the transition to electronic systems to minimize resource use and waste and offers preferential support to disadvantaged groups, social enterprises, and nonprofit organizations. They also offer workshops and training programs for students.
https://www.goodmarket.global/taxadvisorlk
Tönisvorst, Germany
ALEPEO produces Aleppo soap, shampoo bars, liquid soaps and other personal care products from all natural ingredients. Aleppo soap is a hard soap made with traditional methods that date back 1,300 years to the Syrian city of Aleppo. It is made during the winter from pure extra virgin olive oil and laurel oil and is left to cure for six to nine months. Aleppo soap can be used for babies, sensitive skin, and mature skin and is available with four different ratios of laurel oil. ALEPEO products are not tested on animals, are free from animal fats, parabens, synthetic surfactants. They are certified by COSMOS Organic and COSMOS Natural.
www.goodmarket.global/alepeo
Kathmandu, Nepal
SABAH, the SAARC Business Association of Home Based Workers, is a social business organization that is owned and operated by more than 3,500 socially and economically marginalized women across Nepal. SABAH strengthens the livelihoods of home-based workers and artisans by bringing them together into groups, offering training on enhanced production techniques and market opportunities, organizing exposure visits and and other capacity building programs, and providing a marketing platform for more than 7,000 products including textiles, apparel, accessories, housewares, and specialty foods. SABAH has a separate brand targeted towards low income groups and sells affordable products through outlets in rural areas of the country. Member have access to a provident fund, maternity benefits, medical benefits, education, and human development skills. Surplus revenue is reinvested to expand the network. SABAH Nepal is a member of Homenet South Asia and actively works for the rights and protection of home based workers.
www.goodmarket.global/sabah
Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka
Olai is a social enterprise that aims to replace housewares commonly made from plastic with eco-friendly alternatives made from local palmyra leaves. They offer table mats, coasters, bags, boxes, trays, baskets, and other containers. All products are designed and handmade by local artisans in northern Sri Lanka. Olai also supplies edible sprouts, chips, and jaggery palm sugar made from the palmyra tree.
www.goodmarket.global/olai
Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Sparklers Foundation is a not-for-profit that inspires young Sri Lankans to follow their passions and build a more sustainable future for the Island. They aim to provide skills and opportunities to help young leaders develop actionable initiatives, ventures and careers. Their publication, “I Am Inspired” is a collection of insights and reflections from changemakers with Sri Lankan roots. All profits from book sales will go towards funding a textbook version in Sinhala, Tamil, and braille. The textbook will include inspiring stories and career planning exercises and will be introduced into the national high school curriculum in collaboration with the Sri Lankan Government.
www.goodmarket.global/sparklersfoundation
Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
Vagabond Thought produces reusable cloth bags printed with environmentally friendly ink. Their mission is to reduce single use plastic consumption and promote reuse. They offer bags for gifts, groceries, water bottles, yoga mats, laundry, travel amenities, and more. Vagabond Thought aims to provide employment opportunities for people struggling with bipolar, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders.
www.goodmarket.global/vagabondthought
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Fytó offers a wide variety of cacti and succulents that require minimal care and maintenance. They contribute to a greener environment by making it easier for people to choose living plants for their home, office, or work space. Fytó avoids plastic and prioritizes environmentally responsible materials like terracotta, ceramics, and bamboo pulp. They do custom orders for wedding favors and event giveaways.
www.goodmarket.global/fyto
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Mindful Travels is a movement, a community and a platform that makes it easier for conscious travelers to find and connect with like-minded travelers and sustainable businesses in Sri Lanka. The community platform promotes responsible tourism and enables travelers to organize trips, accommodation, services, learning programs, and group activities that prioritize energy conservation, sustainability, and protecting people, heritage, and natural resources. Mindful Travels encourages participants to find ways to give back to the communities they are visiting, connect with local host families and homestays, and self-organize open events, such as beach cleanups, volunteer programs, or board game nights.
www.goodmarket.global/mindfultravels
Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka
Polkatta.com works with rural communities to collect coconut shells that have been discarded as waste and recycle them into bowls, tea cups, mugs, wine glasses, salt and pepper shakers, spoons, and more. Polkatta, which means coconut shell in Sinhala, provides plant-based, biodegradable, reusable alternatives to plastic tableware. They believe that going green is contagious and can start with one person or one family changing habits and lifestyles one step at a time.
www.goodmarket.global/polkattacom
Madiwela, Sri Lanka
Voices of Nature promotes sustainable living and conscious consumption by making it easier to access environmentally responsible products including bamboo straws and toothbrushes, coconut spoons, clay mugs, beeswax wraps, compost bins, padaru woven mats, and natural musical instruments. They have developed a center in the Knuckles mountain range with traditional mud buildings and fruit and vegetable cultivation. Voices of Nature aims to create positive change in people’s attitude and behavior by demonstrating respect for nature, supporting environmentally responsible lifestyles, and organizing community awareness programs.
www.goodmarket.global/voicesofnature
Pepiliyana, Sri Lanka
Our Keto Family provides a range of healthy homemade keto food products, including almond flour burger buns, coconut flour flat bread, coconut flour bread loaves, cauliflower hummus, and flax seed wraps and rotti. They special in nutritious, plant-based, keto-friendly options.
www.goodmarket.global/ourketofamily
Colombo, Sri Lanka
FLY (First Love Yourself) is a clothing brand that prioritizes sustainability, transparency, individuality, and women’s empowerment. The female founder sources waste materials from local garment factories and uses them to create simple, affordable designs for tropical weather. FLY Clothing preferentially sources supplies from women entrepreneurs and provides livelihood opportunities for women who are unable to work outside the home in traditional jobs. They offer alterations and home delivery service to special needs customers.
www.goodmarket.global/flyclothing
Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
Jade’s Home Delights is a family-owned business that specializes in fruit jam made from locally sourced ingredients with no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives. They aim to add value to local produce and provide healthy affordable options to local consumers. Popular products include papaya, woodapple, pineapple, and mixed fruit jams.
www.goodmarket.global/jadeshomedelights
Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
Anagi upcycles glass bottles into vases, candle holders, and artwork. Their mission is to promote environmental responsibility and change perceptions about waste. Priority is given to recycled and natural materials like egg shells, paddy, rice, clay, paper découpage, and jute macramé. Anagi’s founder is a cancer survivor and donates a portion of profits to the Apeksha Cancer Hospital in Maharagama.
www.goodmarket.global/anagi
Know an initiative that’s good for people and good for the planet? Encourage them to get involved. The online application is available in English, Sinhala, and Tamil at https://www.goodmarket.global/application. Urdu translation is completed, and translation into other languages is now underway. Learn more about the community translation project here