Yasmin’s alternative shopping guide

Questions to ask yourself when shopping:

1. Is it Locally made?
2. Is it Fair-Trade?
3. Is it Consumable (who needs more stuff?)
4. Is it a gift or a symbol of obligation?
5. Will this gift enrich their life?

Seattle Places to Shop:
Ten Thousand Villages (not local)
Elliot Bay Book Co.
Ballard Organics
University District Farmer’s Market (Sat. 9am-2pm)
Pike Place Market
There are lots of locally-owned clothing boutiques, but they tend to be expensive…
I like shopping at thrift stores for myself…
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Thrift+Stores&near=Seattle,+WA&ie=UTF8&z=11&om=1

Consumable Gifts:
Candles, chocolate, soap, gift certificates to plays, concerts, dance/yoga classes, restaurants, movie tickets, Netflix etc.

Alternative Giving (online options):
Gifts for the poor in your family/friends’ name…

Roots Young Adult Shelter (U-District agency)
http://www.rootsinfo.org/Donate/tabid/70/Default.aspx

New Horizons (another Seattle agency we have relationship with)
http://www.nhmin.org/help/give.asp

Evanjafrica (our friends in Mozambique!)
http://www.evanjafrica.org/HowYouCanHelp.html

Tusubira (our friends in Uganda)
http://wehavehope.org/help/donate/

WorldVision (www.worldvision.org)
Click on Gift Catalog

Heifer International (www.heifer.org)
Gift Catalog-
http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/

YWCA Adopt-a-Family
Seattle- http://www.ywcaworks.org/page/213
Portland- http://www.ywca.org/site/pp.asp?c=9oILKWMCF&b=108161

Other sites with great ideas
http://www.alternativegiving.org/
https://www.alternativegifts.org/projects/

Celebrate Buy Nothing Day 2008
http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/index.php

stats

“In countries badly affected by the epidemic such as Zambia and Botswana, it is estimated that 20 percent of children under 17 are orphans – most of whom have lost one or both parents to AIDS.”

http://www.avert.org/aidsorphans.htm

An IV’er with IJM

Hey guys – I’ve mentioned International Justice Mission on this blog a couple times.  Turns out IV alum (class of ‘08), Roya Zahed, is getting involved with’em!  Here’s what she’s doin: 

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From January, I am taking on the position of Communications Intern with the International Justice Mission (IJM) in Cambodia.

      For nine months, I get to intern for this human rights agency whose mission is to: secure justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems.

      The Cambodia office focuses on cases related to sexual violence and forced prostitution. It has never had a Communications intern, so I’m the nervous newbie. My tasks will include organizing media inquiries, conducting interviews, writing stories and producing brochures. This opportunity to be an international reporter or sorts is exactly what I have dreamed of. CNN, BBC, the UN… maybe in the future. But for right now, IJM is the right fit.

      My life has been in preparation for an opportunity such as this. I’ve always prayed for God to continually shape my heart like His so that I can see the world like He does. I feel like His pulse drove me to apply to IJM on a whim, His pulse grew my heart for the cause and His knowledge of who I am and my dreams has prepared a way for me to go.

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To support her financially, the easiest and fastest way is to go online to http://www.ijm.org/getinvolved/internshipsupport.  From there, simply click on the link on the right hand side of the page for “Support an International Fellowship or Internship.” Select ‘Roya Zahed’ from the drop-down menu when you enter your donation information.  If you do not see her name in the designation menu, you can type in her name in the “Comments” box. 

Do You See Orange

If you haven’t heard, the UW Chapter of Acting on AIDS is putting on another “Do You See Orange” event in the next month! The goal is to raise awareness of the scale of the AIDS epidemic in the world – particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. We want 5% of the UW student population to wear an orange “ORPHAN” shirt (~2000 shirts) on DEC 1st (World AIDS Day).

Be sure to purchase your own shirt at the HUB lawn starting Nov 10th. Proceeds go towards “HIV care-giver kits” to be sent abroad.

If you would like to help sell shirts at the HUB, please let me know!
terad@u.washington.edu

-dale

Another one of dale’s random ideas

IJM reports that worldwide, there are 27 million men, women, and children subjected to forced labor (sometimes prostitution). So.. to illustrate this statistic in our meeting, I had six of us draw 45 faces each, totaling 270. One face = 100,000 ’slaves’ currently living in bondage in India, Africa, and even the Pacific Northwest.

Film, Faith, and Justice. Oh my!

Hey guys,

I’m trying to organize a group of students to attend part of the “Film, Faith, and Justice” conference held at Mars Hill Graduate Institute.  The conference goes from October 23-25th, and is composed of four separate “blocks”.  Each block has 2 films, a panel discussion, and a lecture.  We’re going to go on Saturday evening (block 4, oct 25th), focused on “The Violent Construction of Race.”  Please, please e-mail me if you’re interested!

http://www.filmfaithandjustice.com/

-Dale

terad@u.washington.edu

Emancipation Network

Emancipation Network – buy products made by survivors of human slavery and trafficking to help ensure their self-sufficiency.

Free Rice is at it again

Hey guys, most of you probably know FreeRice.com, a site where users practice vocabulary and for each correct answer, 20 grains of rice are donated to the World Food Program.

But now… users can practice a lot of things… vocab, math, grammar, Spanish, chemistry, to name a few..

CHECK IT OUT.

Laundry Love Project

A Creative Idea for Compassionate Justice www.just4one.org

Call and Response

http://www.callandresponse.com/

Showing at Metro Theater October 13-16, 7PM & 9PM

All proceeds go to efforts to fight human slavery

JUSTICE IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE IN PUBLIC.