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New Products!
Just before New Year's Day we received our latest shipment from STOPstart which included several new products! Jenny is a marriage of recycled and black denim! 
Click the picture to see Jenny and the other new bags. Back in stock also are the ever-popular Pilar "Mermaid" tote as well as the Mailman's Bag and Trixie in new Tangerine patterns! | |
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The (ad)Venture
January 2011
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Greetings!
T | | Rebecca & Glenn Fadner |
A New Year!
There's something about the first page on a brand new calendar! It's a new year! A time to set new goals and make some resolutions regarding life. A new year is a time for optimism and fresh hope.
Last year the focus in our newsletters we took opportunity to bring some understanding of Fair Trade by sharing in depth on each of the 10 principles. If you're new to our newletter or you simply need a "refresher", visit our Newsletter Archive and re-read our newsletters from last year.
In 2011 we're going to be addressing the issue of Human Trafficking, starting in this issue with some background about what it IS as well as what it is NOT. We realize this isn't a very "pleasant" topic, but our hope is that as you become informed, you'll join with us and many others world-wide to say "No More!"
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
African-American Civil Rights Leader
1964 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
1965 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award |
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What's this newsletter and why am I getting it?
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KVI's newsletter is designed to share with our readers about our suppliers, as well as Fair Trade issues, Human Trafficking, and other topics. We also keep you informed about new products as we introduce them and specials that we run.
If you're NOT a subscriber, we invite you to subscribe by clicking the button below. Rest assured that if you don't, you won't be added to our monthly newsletter list. The choice is yours, but we hope you WILL join us on the (ad)Venture!
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 Human Trafficking...
What IS it?
Let's do an overview, based on this points made by the US State Department:
- Forced labor
- Sex trafficking
- Bonded labor
- Debt bondage among migrant laborer
- Involuntary domestic servitude
- Forced child labor
- Child Soldiers
- Child sex-trafficking
(Click this link to visit the State Department's website for more information.)
David Batstone, president of Not For Sale Campaign, addresses the issue of human trafficking and how it DOES affect each of us in this YouTube video with Hannah Storm of CBS News. |
National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month - January 2011
On December 22, 2010, President Obama issued a presidential proclamation regarding national Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month. The proclamation in part calls "upon the people of the United States to recognize the vital role we can play in ending modern slavery and to observe this month with appropriate programs and activities."
You can read the full text of President Obama's proclamation by clicking this link.
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 Global Human Trafficking Awareness Day
01.11.11
January 11th marks National Global Human Trafficking Awareness Day (NGHTAD). On June 22, 2007, the US Senate passed a resolution that has forever marked January 11th as a day of awareness and vigilance for the countless victims of human trafficking across the globe.
Some statistics from Cassandra Clifford of Bridge to Freedom Foundation:
- There are some 27 million people held in slavery today across the globe.
- According to the 2009 State Department "Trafficking in Persons Report" over 80% of those trafficked trans-nationally are women and children.
- The US State Department estimates that some 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year and about 80% of them are femail and at least 50% are children.
- In 1850 a slave in the Southern United States cost the equivalent of $40,000 today. According to Free the Slaves, a slave today cost an average of $90.
Join with us at Kingdom Ventures in choosing to take action this day, be it via the internet or in your own city/town/village to remember all those around the globe who have been victimized by modern slavery and who are not free to make the day-to-day choices you and I all take for granted. |
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Supplier Update
You may have noticed that "Laos" has disappeared from the sidebar. That's not because Laos has disappeared, nor that we've had any sort of falling out with our supplier.
Over the Holidays we sold the last of the excellent silk scarves that we had purchased from Savanh Mai Lao. While we've been tremendously impressed with the quality of the scarves, it has been a significant challenge to find markets for them. We had brought the scarves in on a trial in late 2009 with no promise for ongoing business, so for the moment we've decided to place Laos "on hold" while we look to see if there are other products that might be a better "fit".
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