Aji's

Aji's is a social enterprise that empowers elders to live healthy and happy lives by providing a platform to showcase their skills and knowledge.

Aji’s has been featured on South China Morning Post, Yahoo! News, BBC News, The Kathmandu Post, Setopati, and more.

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6 Adorable Woolen Products from Nepal Hand-knitted by Grandmothers

Grandmothers and knitting are as intertwined as the knitted products they make. That’s why even our logo features a ball of yarn and knitting needles! In fact, the inspiration for Aji’s came from a grandmother and her knitted socks. Here we put together a list of hand-knitted woolen products made by grandmothers in Nepal that you can purchase to support their work.

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Just thinking...

Written by Aji’s Maker Shiro Moktan

It was but natural to know the Lord’s prayer and the Hail Mary when for fourteen years the nuns in school and college made it your life support. It was just as natural to sit cross legged for hours and pretend to meditate and look pious when you are born into a Buddhist family where regular gatherings of monks and chants and smoke and prayer wheels happened on a weekly basis.

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What is Kon (कों)?

Kon (कों) is a traditional face and body scrub made of natural and edible ingredients which are easily available in any Nepalese kitchen. Kon has been around for a long time as an alternative for soap in Newari culture. The main ingredients that make up this traditional scrub are orange peel, barley, rice, lentils, chickpea, beaten rice which are dried up and beaten to fine powder.

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