Welcome Lanjana, Global Daughter's new lead designer and master seamstress. We are very excited to have her on the team and look forward to seeing what great things she comes up with in the future! She has just left work at a felt factory where she was the senior manager and coordinator of 50 women artisans. Ten years back she worked for one of the major fair trade organizations in Kathmandu as a seamstress and has extensive experience with export-quality manufacturing.
The felt factory Lanjana was recently working at was shut down by the Maoists (communist party) because the factory owner refused to "pay them off." When the group of hooligans came by the factory monthly to collect money for the "people's movement" the owner was forced to "donate." Until one month he basically said piss off. So the Maoists threatened him and eventually closed the factory. So Lanjana and the other 50 women were out of a job. The manager of our main production workshop, Janakpur Arts and Crafts Center offered to hire Lanjana because of her great reputation as a hard worker and designer. So she started working with him and then Global Daughter offered to pay her extra to exclusively design for us. This is a great opportunity for her and she seems to be very excited about being creative again and designing her own stuff.
She is 30 years old and is the only daughter and youngest of 7 children. Her parents have arranged her marriage and she will be married in November. She has been a seamstress since she left school in grade 8 and is a very progressive Nepali woman with spunk and confidence. She has no formal training in design, but she understands the domestic materials that Nepal has to offer and she has experience with any and all fabrics.
Welcome to Global Daughter, Lanjana!
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