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Pictured (left to right): Shohelee Nazneen, Faridul Hassan Khan, Paula Rogers & Tamara Abed
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Shohelee Nazneen
Executive, Export, BRAC-Aarong
Every day I enjoy being involved in creating local employment that protects and promotes Bangladeshi handicrafts nationally and worldwide.
I feel inspired every day by the opportunity to be associated with marginalized rural artisans and to get hands on experience with the craft culture of Bangladesh.
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Md. Faridul Hassan Khan
Senior Manager- Export, BRAC-Aarong
I have been working within the field of Bangladeshi Export for 20 years, with a strong interest in jute and traditional local craft. I joined Aarong, in 2005, where I oversee every aspect of the export department.
My time at BRAC-Aarong has had a profound effect on me, using my professional and technical expertise to further a socially just fair trade organization, both locally and internationally. As a member of the BRAC-Aarong family, I came to understand how BRAC-Aarong’s outreach to underprivileged artisans can help large co-operative groups who need encouragement & effective support. It also made me see that as an individual I can be socially responsible and play a role to support humanity which has helped my personal growth.
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Paula Rogers
Managing Director, The Fairtrading Company
With over 20 years experience in the International trade of Clothing, Textiles and Consumer goods, servicing some of the worlds largest retailers, Paula’s future is to re-direct her extensive professional knowledge to bringing fair trade consumer goods to a new found level of global volume distribution.
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Tamara Abed
Director, BRAC Aarong and AAF
On any given day, I spend my time at work doing many different things from problem solving to nurturing people to looking at new designs to planning our next outlet or line. However, the best thing about working for Aarong is the combination of creativity, business sense and a passion for or sense of responsibility towards social advancement that my work demands.
I get a kick out of trying to fulfill this exciting mix of expectations. You can’t get this kind of satisfaction from any other job. It’s usually one or the other but never the three together.
Today at BRAC-Aarong, we have a new and dynamic challenge in growing our fair trade craft market internationally, with our trading partner The Fair-trading Company. We are ready to accommodate the needs of those markets wholeheartedly and we welcome your enquiries to find new & innovative ways to work together, in the future.
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Fida Haq
Freelance Multimedia Designer & Developer, Sydney based
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Fida was born in
Chapainababganj, Bangladesh and moved to Australia in
1993. He is a Sydney based freelance multimedia
designer/developer, who works across a diverse, and
often, quite disparate, fields of art and design. The
“make do” culture of Bangladesh and the |
visual
vocabulary of richly decorated Dhaka
rickshaws, inspire his work which encompass recycled
media on one hand and Media Arts on the other. Have a
look at some of Fida’s work
www.fidahaq.net.au
Fida has long admired the work of BRAC-Aarong and the
way it almost single-handedly mainstreamed indigenous
art and craft in Bangladesh while maintaining product
innovation and quality. He was delighted to join the
team at The Fair-trading Company to be part of bringing
BRAC-Aarong to a world market.
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