Hong Kong University Fair Trade Week
Hong Kong University
Pokfulam Road
2008.03.10 (11:00 – 16:00)
Open area outside Main Library
WE WILL BE THERE!
2008.03.11 (12:00-14:30)
KK Leung Concourse/ Chong Yuet Ming 302
2008.03.12 (12:00-14:30)
KK Leung Concourse/ Chong Yuet Ming 302
2008.03.13 (12:00-14:30)
KK Leung Concourse/ Chong Yuet Ming 302
2008.03.14 (11:00 – 16:00)
Open area outside Main Library
WE WILL BE THERE!
Sad to see
So much misery on earth
So much more to be done
Glad there are
So many willing hearts
So many out-reaching hands
From Golden Tree Arts:
In northern Calcutta, there is a small but very well known district called Sonagachi, or Golden Tree. It is here that over 6,000 prostitutes work in multi-storied brothels many not through choice but because of poverty.
Golden Tree Arts is a fair-trade, socially responsible organization that empowers the disadvantaged. We will operate in partnership with the Kolkata-based business, Love Calcutta Arts who hires at-risk women and instills in them dignity and self-worth by training them with artisan skills. We enable their economic freedom by bringing their merchandise to the US marketplace. The market for socially responsible products is rapidly growing: the fair trade business in North America grossed an estimated $75 Million in 2004, a 17% increase over 2003. With fair trade certification, you can rest assured that the producers were paid a fair, sustainable wage that promotes opportunity. Golden Tree Arts empowers these disadvantaged women in developing countries to be able to achieve a better life.
A snaily and weary process
For my mosquito project to mature
But at long last a breakthrough
Remember how
In Jan 2006 approached by a super Supermarkt
I replied plainly we’re only interested in NGOs
Remember how
At the Oxfam FT Seminar in Aug 2007
I stood up and confessed I’d changed my mind
Above me
Not one lucky star
A whole galaxy
Just as my other half was again despairing
A marketing team now fell from Heaven
To help dot HK with mini selling points
Share
My joy
My EXCITEMENT
Fanny-Min:)
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New faces
Old Faces
Willing ears
Friendly eyes
I told tales
of Pu’er renamed
of Mango Dryer
of Ginger Chew
Sold out our VCO
Lowered prices of cacao*
Warm smiles
Lovely sunshine
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*for needy students :)
25 dollars reduced to 15.
20 dollars reduced to 15.
All Fair-and-Healthy goodies.
On table with scattered floral pattern.
‘For students
All items at $15′
A small gesture.
Unheeded? Or embraced?
Fair Trade Week
18-20.02.2008
At Chinese University
Cultural Square
Noon till 6pm
Come look us up
:) :)
