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1st April 20; Daily Rice Fund Update
DAILY UPDATE 01.04.20 Migration to villages has now slowed down due to government enforcements. The team is now concentrating on providing raw ingredient bags to daily wage workers who are now stuck in Jaipur and those who live in Jaipur. Today the team have distributed basic food bags containing...
29th - 31st of March; Daily Rice Fund Update
DAILY UPDATE 31.03.20: We now have a second kitchen up and running and have collectively raised enough for almost 92,000 meals! Thank you so much everyone, this is helping SO MANY people.Daisy, X DAILY UPDATE 29.03.20: So far we all have raised enough money for about 73,000 meals!!! Thank you...
28th March 2020; Daily Wage & Migrant Worker Rice Fund Update
Image: DELHI, THIS MORNING, SATURDAY 28th MARCH 2020 Hi everyone,I just wanted to say a MASSIVE heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated to and shared our campaign. Good News:-We have a second kitchen being set up in Gautams (a supplier of our paper lampshades) factory this weekend.-We have...
Celebrating International Women's Day 2020... and Jakki's 1 year retireversary!
Colour, Story, Character. It’s International Women’s Day on 8th March, a day for celebrating women’s achievements. This year, the focus is on raising awareness against bias and driving action for equality. There’s no person more colourful, inspiring, full of character and with an incredible story than our co-founder and warrior...
Why we decided to donate half of all sales taken this Friday...
Hi everyone, So you may have seen our Black Friday campaign on Tuesday... i wanted to tell you more about why we wanted to do it and why we feel so passionately about boycotting the traditional Black Friday. We are going to donate half of all sales taken on this...
Let's Do Green Friday
Apparently something is happening this Friday? Something so heavily advertised that we are being bombarded with black and dark feelings of compulsion to buy, or lose out. Last year $717.5 billion was spent on Black Friday, many of these items bought will already be in landfill, but we supported it,...
Why we say NO to Black Friday
As usual, we will not be participating in Black Friday because represents everything that we are not. Black Friday is OVER-CONSUMPTION at it's worst. We don't believe in pushy & impulsive marketing to encourage people to make purchases, purely because an item is cheap and on 'sale'. Don't buy for the sake of buying. Additionally, our business model cannot support a discount culture, we sell hand made products, made by people who are paid fairly, and from materials which are sourced sustainably. We don't inflate our prices to then be able to discount them so are already offering our products at the...