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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Take the $2 A Day Pledge this Anti-Poverty Week!
By taking the $2 A Day Pledge for two weeks from October 17 (the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty) and choosing Fairtrade, you will be helping to actively reduce poverty by investing in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
Posted in Just Stuff
Tagged $2 a day pledge, Anti-Poverty Week 2009, Fairtrade, www.2dollarsaday.org.au
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Harry Potter Star Emma Watson To Design Fair Trade Fashion Range!
‘People Tree’ is a fair trade organisation that aims to decrease poverty by providing jobs for people in the third world countries.
She explains, ‘I wanted to help ‘People Tree’ produce a younger range because I was excited by the idea of using fashion as a tool to alleviate poverty and knew it was something I could help make a difference with.
‘I think young people like me are becoming increasingly aware of the humanitarian and environmental issues surrounding fast fashion and want to make good choices, but there aren’t many options out there.’
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Tagged Emma Watson, Harry Potter, World Fair Trade Organisation
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Special shirts for Anti-Poverty Week 2009
The shirts are 100% Fairtrade Certified Organic cotton, carbon neutral and made in Australia by workers who are part of the No Sweatshop network. This means that by buying this shirt, you are helping to alleviate global poverty and reduce your carbon footprint.
The shirts are beautifully tailored from fine organic self-striped fabric in white for women and pale blue for men.
Fight Poverty
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” (James 1:27) Poverty is all around us, close to …
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Work rights for asylum seekers under threat and need action!
Changes to the Migration Regulations that would mean fairer access to work rights and greater support for asylum seekers while their application is being processed were tabled in Parliament on the 18th of August. These were welcomed by asylum seeker …
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Tagged Asylum seekers, changes, disallow, migration regulations, opposition, work rights
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