Here’s photos from a more recent trip.
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Here’s a quick visual tour of how we create that high-quality, hand-stitched Fair Trade Sports soccer ball that is conveniently delivered to your front porch.
From flat designs on paper…
…our Master Printers and Cutters create and divide the 32 panel pieces…
…for our adult stitchers receiving Fair Trade wages to hand-stitch.
Bushra is pictured here, holding a completed Fair Trade Sports soccer ball.
The final Fair Trade Sports soccer balls are packed and shipped from our Pakistani partner to our Seattle fulfillment warehouse…
…ready for you to purchase!
[...] How fair trade soccer balls are made, from design to customer enjoyment
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[...] This brief series of photos is pretty cool. It shows the different manufacturing stages a fairtrade soccer balls goes through. I found it pretty enlightening. If you are interested in getting one for yourself check out Etiko. They are the Australian fairtrade soccer ball distributor – their balls look a bit different to the ones in the link but are just as fair! Filed under: Asides, Fair Trade Tags: fairtrade, soccerballs, sports [...]