A significant part of our
nonprofit monies raised from sales at Shopping for a Change goes to community
improvement projects, alongside of paying fair wages to the artisans who craft
the products we carry in our online store. We are very proud to
announce that two preschools we helped to fund with last year’s sales opened on
February 8, 2015, in Bangladesh.
The two schools are located at
Cox’s Bazar, a seaside and fishing town on the southwestern coast of
Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal. Cox’s Bazar’s claim to fame is that it has the world’s longest, uninterrupted sand beach, stretching for 75 miles. The
schools are part of two knitting centers opened by Hathay Bunano, the nonprofit
arm of Pebble, in December 2014 in collaboration with Winrock International, under
the CREL project (Climate Resistant Environment and Livelihoods project) funded
by USAID. 
The training for the women at the
centers has just concluded this month and they will now start actual production
of knitted products. Now their children ages 3-6 years old, can attend the two
preschools. The first school will open with 20 children, with plans to have
more in the future. Similar numbers of students will attend the second school.
Here is a link to a YouTube video on the project.
We feature wonderful baby products
from Pebble, from knitted hats to knitted play toys and rattles. Some of these
items are now on sale. Please visit our baby page here to view our
collection, including these Bangladeshi women’s offerings.
Enjoy your shopping and be sure to
recommend us to your friends. Shopping for a Change is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit
organization.
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