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Brazil Silk Valley won the honour to get the 4th F

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Time:2016-04-21 17:10:00 Source:世界丝绸网 Author:

The award was given by FECOMERCIO that is a Federation Unions related of Trade in Goods, Services and Tourism of the State of São Paulo.  FECOMERCIO is responsible for managing, in the State of São Paulo, the Social Service of Commerce and represents a segment of the economy that mobilizes more than 1.8 million business activities of all sizes and brings together 157 unions employers who account for 11% of São Paulo's GDP - Gross Domestic Product and about 4% of the Brazilian GDP, generating around 5 million jobs.Out of 374 project`s application, only seven were awarded. Our project was one them.

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Get to know one of our winners.

In aworld so technological, it seems impossible to give value to manual labor,  highlight it  and still generate income.


That'sexactly what Artisans Brazil has done.


The entrepreneur João Berdu developed a very interesting project.

He joinedfarmers in the municipality of Nova Esperança  (PR) and provided training for the productionof textile accessories such as foulards and scarves, made of silk produced in the region.


For dyeing process were used natural substancessuch as yerba mate, onion peel and nuts shell.


Today theinitiative sells to a chain of  170stores in France and brings everyone involved a good income.


The project was the winner of the  FECOMERCIOSustainability  Award in the categorymicro enterprise.

 

The 15 thousand Reais of the award was used to createa virtual store. The balance was used to raw material purchase.