You can own this beautiful cashmere capelet (one size)
from Mor Mor Rita.

Designed by High Meadow parent Ryan Roche, Mor Mor Rita 
is a line of 100% cashmere / 100% organic cotton clothing
is made in Brooklyn, NY. 

For Mor Mor Rita, Ryan uses fair trade materials made in Nepal 
by the Asha Ghar women's center.


Asha Ghar Women Center works with destitute women, training
them to make hand crafts and providing opportunities for them to use
these skills in order to make a living so that they may support 
themselves and their children.

Most of the women at Asha Ghar Women Center are from rural villages
from the Gorka District and are widows or have been abandoned by their
husbands. 

Being a single woman in Nepal brings social stigma and
exclusion, therefore making if extremely difficult to gain employment
and raise children. Asha Ghar Women Center has trained more than 50
women in the last 3 years in knitting, crocheting, embroidery and
sewing, making it possible for them to earn money for their families
working either for the Asha Ghar Women Center or for other handicraft
manufacturers in the region. 

A margin of sales from products made at the Asha Ghar Women Center
goes to a clinic and child center in Gaikhur Village which supports
impoverished women and children by providing them with free medical check
ups and medicine.