We Support
'here and there' Happily made in Cambodia
A project set up by Veronica Shermann.
Veronica frustrated with our consumer lifestyle moved her family including 3 children from Australia to Cambodia. She decided to set up a business there to provide work for local woman who may otherwise be unemployed or working in sweat shops not being paid a fair wage. She buys recycled or fabric off cuts at the local markets that the woman make beautiful clothes and accesories from. All of the profits go directly to them.She is making a difference to woman and children in Cambodia through providing woman with sewing work.
www.hereandtherecambodia.blogspot.com
email: hereandtherecambodia@gmail.com
The Green Gecko Project
The GREEN GECKO project is an initiative founded to benefit the lives of street children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. A recently emerging town located in the north-west of the country, it is home to the world’s largest religious site ‘Angkor Wat’ and consequently, a hastily growing tourism industry.
In the past, any tourist strolling along the streets of Siem Reap would have come across these children. While most would have certainly been hassled by their begging, not many would have had the pleasure of getting to know the kids themselves - their humour, tenacity, resourcefulness, hope, trust and friendship. The GREEN GECKO project began when one tourist took the time to do this, during 2005.
You can buy a small selection of their fundraiser merchandise from us with all proceeds going directly to the project.
Go to the website for further details of this amazing project.
Geelong Sustainability Group
Geelong Sustainability Group brings together Geelong residents and organisations who want action in our region. We believe climate change is an emergency for our community, our nation and our planet, and that we must get cracking to create a sustainable and vibrant future.
www.geelongsustainability.org.au
The Geelong Branch of Australia's National Maternity Consumer Organisation
Maternity Coalition is the national childbirth consumer organisation who work to bring information and real choice in maternity services to all Australian women and their families.
Maternity Coalition is an umbrella organisation bringing together groups and individuals across Australia who are involved in pregnancy and childbirth. The organisation creates networks for effective lobbying, information-sharing and support in pregnancy, birth and beyond. Maternity Coalition supports consumer and midwife participation at all levels of health-policy planning and service delivery.
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Geelong Baby and Childrens Community Market
New and Pre-Loved Stalls for babys and children.
This market supports the Geelong Area Multiple Births Association.
http://geelongbabyandchildrensmarket.blogspot.com/
The Organics Box
The Organics Box provides affordable fresh, seasonal organic fruit and vegetables in a convenient ready packed box for your collection on a weekly basis.
Global Neighbourhood
The goal of Global Neighbourhood is to protect the one neighbourhood that is shared by all creatures. The environment of the earth links the whole world into one large global neighbourhood. We have not taken adequate care of our neighbourhood, and it will cause us irreparable harm if we don’t change the way that we treat our world. Global Neighbourhood hopes to initiate this change on many levels.
More specifically, our aim is to inform and equip those who are most affected by climate change. This primary group that we will be directly working with is children, who will inherit the damaged world that we adults have left them.
Parenting
Your online guide to parenting.
Carpets for Communities (CfC) is a social enterprise focused on the education of some of the poorest and most vulnerable children in Cambodia. These children are at high risk of child trafficking, child labour and child prostitution.
We tackle these issues at the root causes of family poverty and lack of education. By empowering very poor mothers with the ability to earn an income from home by making rugs, the children are instantly relieved from working and begging and enjoy their return to school and playing with their friends. By increasing the income of the families we remove the financial incentive for human trafficking and exploitation of the children.
Mothers and girls make better choices for their families, so as well as helping them earn a steady income we focus on empowering them to help us direct the spending of any profits or donations we get. Programs they have initiated include health and first aid training, micro loans, scholarships, monitoring of the children’s attendance at school and supplying the children with ‘back to school kits’ including raincoats and boots, books, stationary, schoolbags and uniforms among other things.
We encourage you to buy/order a carpet or make a donation. Most carpets come in standard sizes and colours as seen in our online store however they can also be made to almost any size and shape and are available in a wide range of colours.
Each carpet sold makes a real difference. Each rug comes with a picture of the family who made it and if you supply your email address we will send you updates on their progress as they are available and occasional newsletters about the project. www.carpetsforcommunities.org