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summary:
In
addition to creating employment, the Trade
plus Aid Design Studio has raised money from international
sales of the glass products and thumb pianos to donate to
the Trade plus Aid charitable trust. In 2003 the trust agreed
to invest £72,906 over 4 years to fund a Good Neighbour charitable
project to feed the destitute and impoverished in the Cleveland
area of Johannesburg where the Trade plus Aid Design Studio is based. This community
feeding scheme is coordinated together with the local
Social Services and the Cleveland Police. Trade plus Aid also
offer educational
grants to all the workers in Design Studio and their
families, to assist them to develop their individual skills
and abilities.
To view the products
of the Trade plus Aid Design Studio, click
here.
For
the original project proposal for the Trade plus Aid Good Neighbour Community
Feeding Programme click here.
(100k)
The funding for this project has been
raised through the fair trading of Woodstock Percussion,
Siesta, Rainstick Trading and Felissimo.
Project Update Reports
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If developing countries increased
their share of world exports by just 5%, this would
generate $350bn - seven times as much as they receive
in aid. The $70bn that Africa would generate through
a one per cent increase in its share of world exports
is approximately 5 times the amount provided to the
region through aid and debt relief.
-ActionAid March 2003
Cleveland has a rapidly escalating population living
in informal settlements, consisting of one room shacks
built out of metal scraps, cardboard and plastic sheeting
"Poverty kills nearly 30,000
children a day"
Save the Children March 2003
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