Archive for February, 2010
Rihanna Rocks Hands Up Not Handouts’ Artisan-Made Accessories
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There are multiple layers of beauty behind the organization Hands Up Not Handouts (HUNHO) whose mission is to help empower the world’s impoverished women. How you ask? By helping them hone in on their knack for handcrafting goods from native materials which in turn, generates income that they, their families and communities can sustain themselves off of. This micro-enterprise model isn’t by any means new, HUNHO is yet just another successful example that’s making a dent for the better. What won’t make a huge dent in your wallet are the oh-so-cool and hip handcrafted accessories being made from HUNHO’s Palestine and Rwanda-based...
Top Fashion Designers Think Fair Trade for EJF Cotton Campaign
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The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has just launched a set of sustainable t-shirts designed by the likes of haute couturiers John Rocha, Zandra Rhodes, Luella Bartley, and Christian Lacroix — to name a few — for summer 2010. The t-shirts are made with fairly traded Continental cotton from Turkey are are designed around the theme, “childhood, lost innocence and hope” in light of EJF’s newly release report, “Slave Nation” on their campaign to end child labor in Uzbekistan. It’s looking like last season’s organic tees are this season’s fairly trade tees. EJF’s new report, “Slave Nation” exposes how the Government of Uzbekistan continues...
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