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April 2017 - Video Blog Newsletter Summary

April 2017 - Video Blog Newsletter Summary

 

April 2017 Video Blog Newsletter Summary

This month I completed the WFTO ASIA'S - Introduction to Gender course and my Six Items Challenge 2017 with Labour Behind The Label.

Attended The Muslim Lifestyle Show said hello to the Macmillan Cancer Support volunteers and purchased fairtrade dates from the Zaytoun stand.

Travelled to Manchester, UK to pay respects to my parents. A year has passed since my beautiful mother passed away from metastatic breast cancer.

Enjoyed a vegetarian lunch and interviewed Dr Sara Parker who has designed two fairtrade puppet sets with fairtrade producers in Nepal.

Celebrated Fashion Revolution week and continued to mentor and support my World Pulse Change Maker Joanna in Poland.

 

SIX ITEMS CHALLENGE 2017

Please click on the following link to read more about my Six Items Challenge 2017 with Labour Behind The Label.

https://www.thelittlefairtradeshop.com/blogs/news/six-items-challenge-2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I have decided to participate and support the Six Items Challenge for the sixth year because I started to campaign for garment and factory workers while caring for my mother who had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.

The six items challenge means I choose six items of clothing to wear for six weeks. Don't worry! This does not include under garments or exercise gear. You can wear an endless supply of these. :) 

For my challenge I've decided to wear one glamourous outfit as prescribed by my mother, a plainer everyday cotton Pakistani traditional costume and a hand embroidered cotton kameez (long blouse) and trousers designed and created by a young lady called Haseena.

 

WFTO ASIA'S - INTRODUCTION TO GENDER COURSE

I enrolled on the WFTO Asia's Building Capacity for Gender Equality Course designed by Tanya Lutvey.

''The course is an extension of WFTO’s sixth Principle of Fair Trade – ending discrimination and promoting gender equity and freedom of association.

The majority of producers in the global informal sector are women who must contend with an employment structure that often fails to recognize their rights.

Principle Six is thus designed to strengthen the institutional mechanisms and policies necessary for protecting their interests.

By providing both women and men with the tools and knowledge to seek improved standards for employment, and training employers to act with a sense of responsibility towards all of their employees, WFTO-Asia is committed to achieving equality for all workers within our network.''

Tanya Lutvey

OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE

MODULE 1 - TERMS AND CONCEPTS

MODULE 2 - EXPRESSIONS OF GENDER

MODULE 3 - WOMENS RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LAWS

MODULE 4 - PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR IMPLEMENTING GENDER

For more information about the Introduction to Gender course please contact Tanya Lutvey Gender Working Group Co-ordinator at: gender@wfto-asia.com

World Fair Trade Organization Asia

Office +66 09 3234 5374

 

 Certificate of Completion - Introduction to Gender

WFO ASIA -INTRODUCTION TO GENDER CERTIFICATE SCREEN SHOT APRIL 17

 

THE MUSLIM LIFESTYLE SHOW 2017

While in London I attended the Muslim Lifestyle Show with my younger sister Irem.

We stopped by to say hello to the Macmillan Cancer Support Volunteers and bought fair trade dates from the Zaytoun stand.

With my sister Irem at the Muslim Lifestyle Show London April 2017

With my sister Irem

 

Sabeena Ahmed with Macmillan Cancer Support Volunteers at the Muslim Lifestyle Show London April 17

At the Macmillan Cancer Support stand with the wonderful volunteers

 

At the Zaytoun stand with volunteers at the Muslim Lifestyle Show London April 17

At the Zaytoun stand with volunteers

 

MUM ONE YEAR ON...

My beloved beautiful mother Mrs Meshar Mumtaz Bano who bravely fought metastatic breast cancer

Meshar Mumtaz Bano 1952 - 2016

Its been a difficult 12 months grieving for my mother who returned to her maker 18th April 2016. Mum courageously struggled with metastatic breast cancer for 4 years and she and my father are buried at Southern Cemetery Manchester.

If you would like to talk about your grief please don't hesitate to drop me a line.

Love and best wishes to everyone who has lost a parent or loved one recently.

 

LUNCH AND INTERVIEW WITH DR SARA PARKER

It was inspiring to finally meet Dr Sara Parker professor at John Moores Liverpool. Dr Parker has spent the past 30 years researching Nepal in particular Sikles a town in Nepal and supporting fairtrade producers WEAVE in Pokhara.

She has written and designed a fairtrade puppet set for children called Fairis the Frog and established her own company Fair Connections and Fair Connections Foundation supporting local schools in Nepal.

The photograph below was posted to Instagram April 2017

Dr Sara Parker and Sabeena Ahmed on Instagram via Fair Connections April 2017

Dr Sara Parker and ME!

 

Dr Sara Parker writing in The Little Fair Trade Shop guest book April 2017 - Manchester UK

Dr Parker writing in my guest book

 

Dr Sara Parkers comments in The Little Fair Trade Guest book - April 17 Manchester UK

Dr Parkers motivating comments

 

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CELEBRATED FASHION REVOLUTION WEEK 2017

 I also celebrated Fashion Revolution Week by posting photographs of many fairtraders and supporters supporting the

''Who Made My Clothes Campaign'' 

 Dr Sara Parker Founder of Fair Connections knows Who Made My Clothes? April 2017

Dr Sarah Parker - Fair Connections

 

Nastacia Radice Creator of TedXDubai knows Who Made My Clothes? April 2017

Natascia Radice - TEDxDUBAI

 

Mrs Helen Barlow Scott of the One Line Ethical Design Studio UK know Who Made My Clothes - April 2017

Helen Barlow Scott - One Line Studio

 

Sabeena Ahmed - The Little Fair Trade Shop - Six Items Challenge 2017 and Fashion Revolution Week 2017

Me!

Join Fashion Revolution or Labour Behind The Label and support their campaigns for better wages for garment workers, saving the environment and educating others to be ethical shoppers and consumers.

I've attached links to both organisations in Further Reading and Links at the bottom of the page.

 

World Pulse Vision Mentor Update April 2017

Joanna Smiejka Autism therapist and trainer - World Pulse Change Maker from Poland January - May 2017

I completed my 3 month support and mentoring with my World Pulse Change maker Joanna Smiejka from Poland.

Many thanks to Patty, Maya, Kartrina, Lisa, Jensine and all the World Pulse team for this opportunity.

 

 

 

If you would like to volunteer your time or expertise to change the life of a world change maker please do not hesitate to write to: Volunteer@worldpulse.com. I sincerely hope they open an office here in the Middle East one day soon.

Thank you so much for reading this months blog and watching all my videos. Your support means more than words.

I look forward to bringing you another update next month Insha'Allah (God Willing).

Take good care,

Love, peace and blessings

Sabeena 

 

Further Reading and Links

Six Items Challenge

Labour Behind The Label

WFTO Asia - Introduction to Gender Course

Macmillan Cancer Support

Zaytoun

Dr Sara Parker

Fair Connections

Fashion Revolution Week

World Pulse

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I finally managed to record videos for my Six Items Challenge 2024 and upload them to my YouTube Channel.

Translation in Urdu

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