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Natalia Popielska
Fast Fashion’s Dirty Secrets
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Safia Minney is the founder of People Tree, author, activist and serial social entrepreneur. She explores the vision required for an economy that avoids ecological collapse.
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She's a designer, campaigner, entrepreneur and founder of Fashion Revolution. Orsola de Castro talks about what's broken in fashion, and how we need to fix it.
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I started People Tree nearly 30 years ago and whilst we make great clothes, foods, and crafts, which are high on social impact and low on environmental impact, it has never been enough.
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Social enterprise in India - the story of an Indian social entrepreneur building enthusiasm with local consumers.
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This is the story of Asha Handicrafts (India) and Oasis Transformations (Bangladesh). Two social entrepreneurs from these Fair Trade Enterprises talk about their journey in the global market.
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This episode presents AvocadoStore, the online ethical marketplace making waves in Europe.
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Culemborg, The Netherlands, 8 March 2019 - Today, the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) releases new studies that shows the majority of Fair Trade Enterprises are led by women. According to the study, the network of more than 300 social enterprises in over 70 countries (i.e. WFTO members) have women as the majority among CEOs, board members and senior managers. This is in stark contrast to the mainstream business world.
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Carol Wills,
Honorary Member
Women’s leadership in Fair Trade Enterprises
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Eve Broadis, a pioneer of Fair Trade and social business in Scotland, shares her story.
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Bethlehem founded Entoto Beth in Ethiopia as a social enterprise. Today, her enterprise gives opportunities for 200 women in marginalised communities.
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Over half of Arabs in Israel live in poverty. Within this population, there are 200,000 women of working age who have no post-school qualifications. Sindyanna refuses to regard them as a lost generation. Instead, the social enterprise seeks to empower these women and help them acquire skills appropriate for the modern Israeli labour market. These skills include basket weaving, independent small business management and the Hebrew language, which is a condition for seeking work.
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Allison Havens founded Yabal Handicrafts in Guatamala to keep alive indigenous weaving techniques and create livelihoods for local women.
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Rain Morgan
Cape Town, South Africa
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Maricucha de la Fuente
Allpa, Peru
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With growing concerns about non-inclusive workplaces and public spaces, global reports outlining rising inequality and #metoo, the World Fair Trade Organization’s (WFTO) studies on gender equality and empowerment comes as a breath of fresh air.