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00:00The glitz and glamour of the city can never come close to this . The glory of nature amid the soaring peaks of the Himalayas . That's what Barbara absolute thought when he turned his back on the one hundred and fifty thousand dollar career in McKinsey to herd goats do something which is not true about me. Even though you know everything is good you know good salaries good accommodation good food good friends and traveling all over the world. But there was some truth missing in my life and I was not able to pinpoint that back in his Kashmir homeland Bob Barr now handles some of the most expensive Pashmina scarves in the world. He oversees Kashmir produced by some of India's poorest being woven into shawls and scarves that are destined to be offered in luxury boutiques far away. If you train the people local people of NASDAQ in spinning and weaving you know how it is how it should be done. There is a level of and possibly implement and from visit the third thing you know the local people who has been to do that as well as the people who are doing the left creating the entire community gets to benefit . BABA And now describes himself as an artisan businessman even a philanthropist. He intends to give 7 percent from each sale back to the community. So in healthcare we need get healthcare kits to be provided to the community. We need ambulances to be provided the community. We need to create schools and mobile schools for the nomadic community. Training and education is a very important part of far for them also to grow in the value chain of Paul Sweeney and with the traditional industry in danger of dying out. His plan will be a much needed boost . However when our children get education and are exposed to the city is hard to come back. It's a dark future for sheep herding India now accounts for less than 1 percent of the 15000 tonnes of global annual Paul Sweeney production. Mongolia makes up 20 percent and China 17 Barbara's plan involves cutting out the middlemen and giving the nomads a bigger slice of the pie. That in turn should make the business more appealing to the next generation. The former I.T. analyst says living with the shoppers has opened a whole new chapter in his life. He has just negotiated the deal to sell push Minas in New Delhi and Mumbai one has even bigger plans for the future. Paris the capital of fashion Shery Ahn Bloomberg .

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