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About Us 1) By purchasing a product from this web-site you are helping support workers and their families in Nepal who are fairly paid. 2) Now that my products are starting to sell in some volume, I am Happy to report that I have been able to start to support Some of the less fortunate people in Nepal by contributing to www.just-one.org A charity that strives to actively promote and facilitate educational opportunities for disadvantaged and marginalized children in Nepal by working at a grass-roots level When I decided to start my Rucksack Pro-Tector and Travel accessory business the first thing that I had to decide was where to have my products manufactured. As I had already visited Nepal, at this point three times and had fallen in love with both the country and its people, Nepal seemed the Obvious choice.I was however aware of certain drawbacks in basing the manufacturing part of my new venture there, The First Big downside is that Nepal is a land-Locked country, Therefore all my products have to be Air-Freighted back to England which is obviously a lot more expensive than shipping them by sea, also as the political regime is, to put it mildly, a bit unstable, then I also risked loosing any money that I have there on Deposit. However, In Spite of these and many more lesser restrictions, I decided to follow my Heart and go ahead with production in Nepal, as at least by providing some employment, at a fair rate then I both then felt and still feel that I am doing my Small part to improve the peoples lot over there.So after extensive trials on my prototype Rucksack Pro-Tector, I booked a flight to Kathmandu and there talked to several manufacturers and inspected their factories. I wanted to ensure that employees were fairly treated and paid at least the going rate. I didn't want my products manufactured under a "Piece Work" arrangement as I believed and still believe that this would be both to the detriment of the employee and the product. I eventually settled on a family run, Kathmandu based company called P.G. Garments to manufacture my products as they pay there staff slightly above the average, they don't employ child labour and every time I visited the factory there always seemed to be a Happy atmosphere. So in 2004 I returned home with some sample pieces of my Rucksack Pro-Tector and the rest of the order followed me a couple of weeks later by Air-Freight. I went live with my web-site in the summer of 2004 and traded slowly but surely for a period of 12 months before Disaster struck. I was defrauded out of my original www.pro-tector.com name and there was No way of me being able to get it back. The British Police were involved and the person who defrauded me, I am Pleased to say is now serving a custodial sentence in one of Her Majesties Prisons, But All this didn't get me control of my web-site back and therefore I had to register my current .co.uk one !! In 2006 I returned to Nepal and ordered another batch of my Rucksack Pro-Tectors and also Two New Lines which I had designed, The Pro-Tector Wallet and the Pro-Tector Travel Pouch. As some of you will no doubt know, Nepal was in political turmoil at this time But in spite of this, My Good Nepali friends manufactured my order and Air-Freighted it back to England . In June 2006, This my new www.pro-tector.co.uk web-site went live and Slowly But Surely orders came in. In 2008 I returned to Nepal to place another order and again to expanded my product range to include the Trekking-Pole Protector's and a choice of colour for the Pro-Tector Wallet and the Documents / Valuables Pro-Tector Travel Pouch In 2009, after taking advice, I decided to register the business as Companies House. The New Company Name is Pro-Tector Great Britain Limited with the company number 6787918. In 2012 I returned to Nepal as I had decided to try a different factory to produce the Pro-Tector range, The main reason for this was to improve the quality of my products, again I chose carefully and settled on a very small company that consisted of two brothers and two machinists and I have to say that I am sure I made the right choice. Every single piece was quality checked before they were airfreighted back to UK so that quality control couldn’t be better. The Pro-Tector GB name is slowly becoming synonymous with Ethically produced Quality products and a reliable service, so let's Hope that economic downturn is soon over and again orders start topick up Please see my testimonials page to read comments and see photos from numerous happy customers. So, To Recap 1) By purchasing a product from this web-site you are helping support workers and their families in Nepal who are fairly paid. 2) Now that my products are starting to sell in some volume, I am Happy to report that I have been able to start to support Some of the less fortunate people in Nepal my contributing to www.just-one.org – A charity that strives to actively promote and facilitate educational opportunities for disadvantaged and marginalized children in Nepal by working at a grass-roots level |
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