Pookipoiga

The concept of Pookipoiga was initiated by Sree and Megan. Megan was a Social Worker and Public Health Specialist who wanted to continue to use her powers for good instead of evil. Throughout her career, she has worked with a Nepali community. She worked for three years, taking her public health skills along with her in order to open a health centr... e (Bhumethan Community Health Centre found in 2015, sadly fell down in the 2015 earthquake) in a rural village (Ramechhap) making a huge impact for the community focusing on preventative health. She has since worked in Mental Health and Refugee Settlement. For Pookipoiga, Megan focuses on the people who make the products - throughout the whole product cycle. She is an Emergency Nurse in one of the prominent Melbourne hospital now and in her spare time you will see her at some major events (when it is COVID-free), volunteering for St John's Ambulance Service as a First Responder. Sree was a Manufacturing Engineer who was dissatisfied (and a little embarrassed), with his industry since he used to be involved in making Press tools, Injection molding etc, encouraging mass production. In 2009 he met Megan and was touched by her story and went and saw what she did in Nepal and started helping her fundraise for the health centre, she founded. He founded the Cashmere brand, Nine Yaks in 2012 to help fundraise for the Health Centre. He worked for 12 years before he came to the conclusion that he wanted to use his skills for better and encourage sustainability. He thought deeply about how much unnecessary harm we have done to the world through our consumption pattern and wanted to make a change. He wanted to do more with less. He wanted to find a way to incorporate the adage of 'reduce, reuse, recycle, upcycle'. He is the chief chai maker, storyteller and planet guardian (he even take time to rescue sticky tapes and anything which comes into our store) at POOKIPOIGA. We have talked about the masterminds behind the concept, but what exactly is Pookipoiga? "Pookipoiga" is a ...Read More