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2019 November - "BFCM" - Our View - Food for Thought

November 26, 2019

Two Rants in succession! Wow! Holi Boli has decided not to take part in the "Black Friday Cyber Monday" consumerism pandemic. In this blog we try to succinctly discover what BFCM is and why Holi Boli feels it cannot take part. No judgement on anyone who is involved in BFCM it is simply our view on it offered as "Food for Thought"!

#Black Friday Cyber Monday

#Ethical Fashion

#Opinion

October 25, 2019

Ana appears on the Ethical Made Easy website and in the Napier Courier (the local newspaper where Ana went to school - way back in the day).

#Ethical Made Easy

#Napier Courier

September 27, 2019

Super duper awesome to have Ethically Kate wearing Holi Boli. We need to get our name out there because every dress sold goes into empowering women in rural India. This is our way to fight for freedom and a better planet - We do ethical fashion!

July 13, 2019

Back to Work! The summer has finished and Holi Boli is back into full swing. Special thanks to those who helped us purchase some ACs. Ana had some amazing meetings in New Zealand and meet some amazing people. We all feel excited by the new branding and encouraged to get into work again.

April 03, 2019

We had an awesome time with a super team for the re-branded Holi Boli 2019-20 collections. Brit and Hope did an amazing job modelling for hours and hours while Liz, Matt, Hamish, Sarah and Ana worked hard behind the scenes to pull it all together. We loved working with such a fun group of professionals. Here is a sneak peak of our behind the scenes work.

#Brittany Ress-Thomas

December 22, 2018

All in the van with our equipment Every year we go on our annual Holi Boli Christmas Picnic. We load up the van with people, uncooked food, pots and firewood. There is not a single space left in the van. We are peas in a pod bursting at the seems. I am not sure that it meets western safety standards but it does meet our standard of fun. LOL. We drive down to the local river and find us a great...

November 22, 2019

It’s still a man’s world out there. It is getting better but it is still not good enough. I remind myself that I do not want to become the things I hate. That is what happens if we go all ‘Hulk’ rage when we are wronged - we wrong others. We need to ‘Nelson Mandela” that rage. Turn it into a better world.

#Blog

#Empowering Women

#Opinion

October 11, 2019

Hey there, it's holiday mode in Odisha! Dussehra and Diwali Pooja Time in Odisha - Let the fun begin! Super cool to have Sarah and Miriam here this week from New Zealand. We were able to hang out and do some of my favourite things - drink chai while fabric shopping and help them to sew up their own designs.

#Empower Women

#Love Your Sisters

#Visitors

2019 August - The Road Trip - A personal Adventure into the Jungle

September 17, 2019

Ana takes a journey with her family to a friend's son's wedding. A personal story about life in India and the adventures that occur. I love all the adventures I have here and I am grateful to be doing my business here.

June 30, 2019

The Holi Boli site has been re-launched. We are so proud of what a very special team has produced. Holi Boli wants to say thanks to those who were involved in all the hard work getting things done. धन्यवाद! THANKS!

February 19, 2019

It was really awesome to have some very very qualified nurses (holding masters degrees and many years experience) come and visit us at Holi Boli from New Zealand. We all took turns to have a medical check up. We all had our Blood Pressures done and number of other tests. We answered a lot of questions. Fortunately, we are all pretty healthy. Our results are all on file for the next check up and we...

December 15, 2018

Another awesome class of graduates from the Holi Boli Sewing Centre. We teach stitching, pattern making and designing to students. Most of them take these new skills and get work. We even get to hire a few of them at Holi Boli for our clothing manufacture side. Graduates of December 2018 The course runs for 4 months. The students learn the very basics such as cutting with scissors and threading...