Holiday Market Vendor Profile: House with Heart is Helping Flood Victims in Nepal

Helene Ferm

17 hours ago

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The Gifts of Conscience Holiday Market is an opportunity to feel good about your holiday shopping.

Sunday November 22 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

The Holiday Market is featuring local and global vendors including non-profits and artisans that are donating at least 20 percent of their profits to a social justice charity.

Each of the Market vendors has a back story – this week here is a message from House with Heart.

House with Heart is a charity that provides a home for abandoned girls, an education center for impoverished women and children, and an outreach program for needy families in Kathmandu, Nepal. The scarves and felt ornaments that will be sold at the fair are made at House with Heart in Nepal.

Following the Rasuwa floods in Nepal this past August, House with Heart initiated support for the Sundarijal Holding Shelter where 185 people, including 65 children, displaced by the floods have been staying. House with Heart is providing the shelter residents with essential food items and accommodation supplies needed for daily living. The first shipment included food for a month and 60 sets of blankets, pillows, bedsheets, and mattresses. Proceeds from sale of decorated cookies at the Holiday Market will go directly to the Flood Victim Fund.

The photos show House with Heart residents, the first shipment of flood relief supplies and a sampling of the scarves and felt ornaments that will be sold at the Market.