Pekerti Foundation

Back, Pekerti honored with the arrival of one Pekerti’s buyer, Ten Thousand Villages Canada, which has more than 20 years of cooperation with Pekerti. Ten Thousand Villages, Canada, which had existed since 1968, sent Marilyn Price, product development staff, to visit Pekerti. Marilyn was in Indonesia from date 1 to 3 August 2009. In addition to strengthening trade relations have been made by both sides, the visit was also intended Marilyn to discuss business plans between the two sides.
Marilyn’s visit began with a visit at the National Museum, National Monument and a craft shopping center to see the trend of handicraft in Indonesia that can become ideas for product development for Pekerti’ artisans. On the second day, Marilyn went to Sumedang to find out the skill and show also understand the production process is done by one Pekerti’ craftsman directly, Heru Firmansyah, along with his group. The group was deliberately chosen because this group is become suppliers of products for Ten Thousand Villages, Canada. Marilyn, in addition to seeing the production process is also directly exploited the opportunity of this visit to talk with the head of the group and group members crafters.
On the last day of her visit, Marilyn visited Pekerti office in Jakarta. Marilyn gave the updated information about Villages Canada and its activities. Pekerti team, on the same time, also shared the updated information about Pekerti’ activities on community developments as well product development. They also shared about the product development, sales target and also the market trend. After that, Marilyn chose some new product samples from Pekerti.