The Fashion 4 Development group in DC recently featured our “alternate sleeve” tee shirts, ball caps, Fair Trade soccer balls, and Fair Trade rugby balls at their swank DC Fashion Week event. Carmen Iezzi, Executive Director of the Fair Trade Federation commented, “The colorful clothes from Fair Trade Sports looked great coming down the runway! Everyone saw how [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Design contest: film, Flash, or photo
March 26, 2007For those of you who requested ways to help with your design skillz – particularly the high school and college students at Convergence this year – we now have two design contests underway. Whatever your skill set, put it to work for the Fair Trade movement and help us tell our story via film or [...]
Renovated water wells, happy life
March 21, 2007Here is a brief update from our Fair Trade Welfare Society in Sialkot, Pakistan at one of the manufacturers of Fair Trade Sports balls. I’d like to give you a direct glimpse – in their own words – of what the crew is achieving with the extra funds we pay through Fair Trade premiums (reminder: [...]
Playing volleyball in Kenya
March 14, 2007Images like this make me smile. Sent by Marit Krueger, a good friend working in Kisumu, Kenya with her husband and kids. This is Elijah Odhiambo, an orphan who lives with them on their Miwani farm and is in the public school nearby. Marit says, “The footballs [soccer] and volleyballs arrived intact! The boys are [...]
Nothing but Fairtrade for two weeks
March 10, 2007For those of you who have not yet seen this in the news…there is a fellow in the UK who is living on nothing but Fairtrade items for two weeks. Fair Trade bananas, nuts, rice…you get the picture. His name is (of course) Fairtrade Man. His mission is noble and he seems to be quite [...]
Celebrating International Women’s Day
March 8, 2007Today is International Women’s Day, the global celebration day connecting all women around the world – inspiring them to achieve their full potential. International Women’s Day celebrates the collective power of women past, present and future. We’ve seen this with our female Pakistani stitchers like Razia. Through the Fair Trade monies that you help us [...]
Fighting child labor in chocolate industry
March 7, 2007Our friends in the Labor Rights movement just launched a writing|art contest for students to raise awareness of child labor in the chocolate industry. The first prize for the winning student essay|art in each category is a youth soccer ball from Fair Trade Sports. If you have kids in grades 3-12, please encourage them to [...]
