West African Partnerships - July 2008

Regular customers and friends tend to know that trade with many parts of the developing world can be difficult at times. Often the infrastructure i.e. Road & Rail, Telecommunications, Economic instability do not always present an environment in which to do business! These are the challenges that Natural Flow Direct deal with on a daily basis, in running a Fair Trade and Ethically sourced product based business. We have been trading and developing partnerships with West Africa over several years now. We managed to negotiate some space in a "South Bound" sea container from Banjul in West Africa recently. We are reliably informed that our new drum order from Mohammed has arrived at Southampton. Also in our shipment we have a large amount of colourful African Textile Djembe Drum bags. We sent our drums via Sea this time as the price of Aviation fuel has reached levels that make importation from The Gambia almost impossible. The sea route, we are reliably informed, also has a smaller Carbon Footprint. So our new Djembe Drums and Fair Ethnic Trade percussion will be here in our warehouse next week (7-7-08 onwards). Here are a few new pictures of Mohammed & Family. Also our Artisan friends and Partners.

To see our range of Fair Trade Musical instruments including our NEW drums, please visit www.naturalflowdirect.com