Sep 11, 2008

Further Fantastic News From 'Gone Rural'

Click on the image below to read the latest rewarding projects that 'Gone Rural' have achieved in Swaziland. This is in part due to the continued support for the large range of tableware that has been sold through www.Naturally-Gifted.co.uk


'Gone Rural' thanks Naturally Gifted customers

Well done to Naturally Gifted Customers! Fair Trade company 'Gone Rural' thanks you for the continued support and looks forward to working with 'Naturally Gifted' in the future.
Gone Rural have written to us to explain what they have achieved in the last year. What a difference we can all make.


Dear Naturally Gifted

Thank you so much for your support of Gone Rural and our seven hundred and thirty women producers. Thanks to you we have great pleasure in announcing that we have been able to double the women's income in 2007.
So far this year we have been able to pay school fees and buy uniforms for two hundred Swazi children, the vast majority of which are HIV/AIDS orphans.
As Swaziland now has a new constitution all of our women have undergone their first Women's Rights training which is run by female lawyers who accompany the Gone Rural buying team on their three weekly cycle of visits to our women.
So far all our women have also undergone HIV/AIDS basic awareness training, over eighty percent have been voluntarily counselled and tested for the disease. Now we have arranged for the mobile testing unit to also accompany the team to dispense the medicine required to keep our women healthy.


Please keep supporting 'Gone Rural' through www.Naturally-Gifted.co.uk