What it's all about
We would like to hold an arts and crafts day for children from the local community with the aim of raising awareness about fair trade, organic and recycled clothing.
Children would be split into 4 groups, each partaking in a hand-on activity to produce a garment or accessory using fairtrade, organic and recycled materials. The four groups would be:
W - wrap yourself: showing kids how they can design their own items. Each child would produce a bag made
from organic cotton.
E - environment: learning about organic cotton, what it is and where it comes from.
A - awareness: learning what fair trade means. Children will each produce a new fair trade logo and print
them on a fair trade t-shirt
R - recycle: children will have the opportunity to rejuvenate an old piece of clothing by cutting, sewing
and embellishing it.
This will culminate in a fashion show with the children modeling along side models from the UCL fashion society who will be helping all day.
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Nadia Cole, Volunteering Development Worker, UCL Union Voluntary Services Unit
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