our developing world Fair Trade International Handcrafts on display and for sale

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Items for sale:

• Three handwoven cotton scarves
  • Two from Vietnam by Agent Orange survivors
  • One from Cambodia by deaf
  
  
• Purses large and small handwoven silk and handwoven wool $9 - $20 from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Ecuador and Bolivia
  
  
• Beautiful embroidered frameable pieces made by Vietnam by Agent Orange survivors $34 - $28
  
  
• One Ecuadoran finger puppet and ocarina, one Laos acrobat, assorted baskets
  
  
• Two hand woven silk wrap around skirts with gold embroidered border $24
  • one deep burgundy
  • one deep turquoise
  
  
• Assorted baskets, jewelry, mobiles
  
  
• Set of four blue padded place mats with napkins and coasters to match from Cambodian landmine survivor $20
  
  
• Two hand woven hangings/runners $19
  • Cotton green and white reversible Bolivia
  • Brown tones in wool from Ecuador
  
  
• And more!
  
  

•  All year round we sell Fair Trade both dark and milk Divine chocolate bars at $1.75 each or 2 for $3. See calendar of events.

•  Check the posters listed by theme and country or region with the K-12 Resources.

•  A 35 page curriculum for middle and high schools “Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack” $3.00 covers printing and postage. or download a PDF copy -(512k) of the curriculum http://www2.edc.org/beyondblame/beyondblame.pdf.

Simulations involve people, put them in others' shoes, feeling global interdependence:

Starvation or Survival has four settings: Central America, Asia, Latin America, Africa or Women and Development in Africa. This activity is done in groups, each representing a rural subsistence village. Weather is determined by the throw of a die. Local and global impact cards give each village (and sometimes all the villages) one reality at a time. This ranges from crop pests to World Bank and the debt crisis. Malnutrition can lead to disease. The third year the villages have choice cards which are real choices that subsistence farmers have made in poor countries. These ususally lead to positive outcomes. People remember this experience for years.

• Time needed: 90 minutes can take you through the first and third year.
• Responses after the first and third year to ″how do you feel and what would you do″ differ remarkably.
• Who would enjoy: fifth grade – adults.
• $25 cost.
  
  

•  Don't forget we also have a video of Paul Robeson singing ″Ballad For Americans″. $10 donation.

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