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October 16 Guide to Fair Trade...Oder it for Free!This is a GREAT (and free) tool that is helpful to understand more about fair trade: The Guide to Fair Trade. Check it out! -Sarah D-T Finding Fair Trade resources has never been easier! Want to know where to get the latest Fair Trade products? Need organizing material for your business or organization? Discover all the possibilities of Fair Trade in Co-op America’s new full color Guide to Fair Trade! Inside you'll find descriptions of dozens of national and international Fair Trade products. Learn
where to find them using our extensive directory of almost 200 Fair
Trade businesses and organizations. Take action in the Fair Trade
movement by following the step-by-step plan for mobilizing your
organization and local producers. This Guide is perfect to educate
yourself, help with your Fair Trade campaign, and spread to other Fair
Traders. And best of all it’s FREE! You can download it or request free hard copies mailed directly to you. Order one for yourself or enough to pass out to other Fair Traders. Make a Difference this Halloween with this Fair Trade Trick or Treat KitWhat a fantastic idea for this Halloween...check it out! For $15, it seems to be a cool way to inform our kids, neighbors, and ourselves! :) -Sarah D-T The first of its kind, this Fair Trade Trick or Treat Kit has everything you need to make Halloween 2007 something special. Give more than candy this year...give knowledge about the importance of Fair Trade! First launched in 2005, our Fair Trade Trick or Treat Kit in 2007 includes:
Postcard Contents: A list of how you can help Fair Trade succeed, information about Fair Trade, contact information and a pre-written detachable postcard. Attention: Due to popular demand, we will be shipping the chocolate minis out the week of October 22nd, for guaranteed delivery by October 31st. March 06 Our Community Gathering and Market - February 2007Highlights from our February 10 Community Gathering & Market…
If you’re interested in ordering any gifts before our next Market, please let us know. For those of you in Denver, you are most welcome to have a cup of tea & take a look at what we have. For those who live too far away to come over or don't have time to do so, feel free to e-mail me with your order &/or questions. We just received two big boxes of beautiful goods from India – scarves, exquisite beaded jewelry, journals, & cards! The videos are a bit "shaky"...but, fun, nonetheless! :) January 30 SOE Community Exchange & Market - February 10, 2007Join us for our upcoming
Seeds of Exchange Community Gathering & World Market
The Davison-Tracy’s
2095 Cherry Street - Denver
Saturday, February 10, 2007
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Come , drink chai, listen to Fatouma’s story, & meet some amazing people in our community who are interested in building bridges of friendship, creating sustainable livelihoods , & living rich & full lives in everyday-ordinary & extraordinary ways.
Bring your children, spouses, friends, & family…the more, the merrier!
If you want to stop in for the fabulous company
please do – you need not buy a thing!
1-2:30 pm… Seeds of Exchange
World Market
Look at & purchase beautiful items crafted by women in
India, Ethiopia, Indonesia, & Pakistan.
2:30-4 pm… Women’s Stories
The SOE World Market will be “open” & Fatouma Ahmed, from Ethiopia, will be telling her extraordinary story (there will be a movie made about her life one day!) & will share a coffee-roasting ceremony with us.
(If you are not able to make this event, but would to place an order, we’ll mail your beautiful items to you. We’d be ever so delighted to do so! Contact us at: sarah_jdt@msn.com or 720.301.1510.) January 03 You are Invited - January 13, 2007 - SOE's World Market & Community GatheringJoin us for our upcoming Seeds of Exchange World Market & Community Gathering
The Davison-Tracy’s
2095 Cherry Street - Denver
Saturday, January 13
1:00-4:30 p.m.**
1-2:30 pm… Seeds of Exchange
World Market
Look at & purchase beautiful items crafted by women in
India, Ethiopia, Indonesia, & Pakistan.
2:30-4:30 pm**… Women’s Stories
We will be screening the film, Chasing Freedom.
This is a remarkable story about one Afghan woman’s quest for freedom from the Taliban.
**Because we will be watching a film during this event,
the Women’s Stories time will be extended until 4:30 p.m.
(If you are not able to make this event, but would to place an order, we’ll mail your beautiful items to you. We’d be ever so delighted to do so! Contact us at: sarah_jdt@msn.com or 720.301.1510.)
Come , drink chai, watch a remarkable film, & meet some amazing people in our community who are interested in building bridges of friendship, creating sustainable livelihoods , & living rich & full lives in everyday-ordinary & extraordinary ways.
Bring your children, spouses, friends, & family…the more, the merrier!
If you want to stop in for the fabulous company
please do – you need not buy a thing!
Seeds of Exchange World Market
1-2:30 p.m.
2:30-4:30 pm… Women’s Stories We will be screening the film, Chasing Freedom, a story about one Afghan woman’s quest for freedom from the Taliban. This film explores important issues facing refugees & those seeking asylum & “safe harbor” in the United States today. The topic of political asylum has grown increasingly critical in recent years, as the United States grapples with the need to keep its citizens safe yet also provide refuge to immigrants who are in danger in their own homelands.
Inspired by true events, this film depicts the horrors of life under the Taliban in Afghanistan & a young woman’s attempt to seek political asylum in the United States. Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis stars as an ambitious New York lawyer who takes on the pro-bono case of Meena, a 26-year old Afghan woman portrayed by Layla Alizada, who flees the Taliban because of their opposition to her teaching young girls to read & write. This is a film about friendship, transformation, & the understanding that can come from the simple act of listening to another’s story.
Seeds’ Second Saturday’s! These gatherings will continue on the 2nd Saturday of each month, from 1-4 p.m. Each month, you will have the opportunity to purchase unique & meaningful fair trade gifts & learn from an incredible woman as she shares her story. Our next gathering will be on February 10, 2007…hope you can come! December 13 Our SOE Market - Cancelled for December 9, 2006December 8, 2006 My dear friends and family, I am writing to tell you that I am cancelling the Seeds of Exchange World Market tomorrow. Even as I write this, I am sitting with my Gram, in my mom & dad’s cozy home in Washington state. My Gram (my dad’s momma) is very, very sick. All week, I’ve been touching base with my family, and have been planning on heading up here to be with her, but I thought I would be able to safely wait ‘til after our SOE World Market tomorrow. However, yesterday morning, I got a call from my mom and dad, saying that Gram was much worse, and that if I wanted to see her, I should head up right away. Even as I received the call, I was excitedly preparing for all of you to come to the Market…we received new beautiful goods from Indonesia, India, and Ethiopia and baked several hundred cookies for you yesterday! What a fun and enormous disaster it was with Sophia, our dear neighbor-kids Jack & Anna (whose mom let them take a “mental health day” to be a part of the cookie-baking!), one of Soph’s dear friends, Pria, Pria’s mom & grandma, and Bran’s Nana &Dad-Dad. There was flour, sugar, icing, & cookie sprinkles EVERYWHERE! Once we got the call from my parents, our cookie-baking slowed and I began contemplating leaving right away. So, with the help of our dear family (who came over to clean up the said cookie-disaster and package up the several hundred cookies, and help me pack!), within a few hours, we were on the plane, and arrived in Seattle last night at nearly midnight. Soph and I have had a few short moments with her already, and she’s recognized us – she said, “You guys didn’t have to come all this way!” J Gram was concerned about when she could get her hair done next, so in the meantime, we gave her one of Soph’s hair-flower-clips, which she is wearing right now! J That’s my Gram! Though I initially wasn’t sure what I should do, now that I am here, I am SO glad that I decided to come when I did. But, we DID have to come all this way, for THIS is where we are to be right now. Her headache and fever seem to have gotten much better as the morning has progressed, which is fantastic! Please pray with me for her peace and comfort. Dear, dear gram. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your dear families! November 30 You are Invited - December 9 - Seeds of Exchange Second Saturday!Join us for our upcoming
Seeds of Exchange Community Gathering
The Davison-Tracy’s
2095 Cherry Street - Denver
Saturday, December 9
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1-2:30 pm… Seeds of Exchange World Market
Look at & purchase beautiful items crafted by women in
India, Ethiopia, Indonesia, & Pakistan.
2:30-4 pm… Women’s Stories
Listen to the stories of women from ‘round the world
& learn more about this extraordinary world
& community of ours!
Fatouma Ahmed, from Ethiopia, will be telling her extraordinary story (there will be a movie made about her life one day!) & will share a coffee-roasting ceremony with us.
Seeds’ Second Saturday’s! These gatherings will continue on the 2nd Saturday of each month, from 1-4 p.m. Each month, you will have the opportunity to purchase unique & meaningful fair trade gifts & learn from an incredible woman as she shares her story. Our next gathering will be on January 13, 2007…hope you can come!
Reflections - Our first "Second Saturday" - November 11It takes a village! This is not even close to a one-woman show or "SOLE proprietorship"...this is a village-endeavor! I have been sure of this from the beginning – but, it was brought home to me, experientially, as I was preparing for our first SOE World Market.
On November 8, Jaimala (from India), Heidi (just back from India last week), and Anna (from California), were scheduled to arrive and stay with us. That very morning, I fell down the stairs. Oh, my…I knew that it was going to be a painful few days! With lots to do in preparation for our dear guests’ arrival, the SOE World Market, and caring for my Sophia, I was a bit panicked about how to make it all come together. Thus began a remarkable, intimate, sometimes-humbling, and REAL few days of community. I cannot detail all that many women in my “village” offered to do to help, but it was amazing: …coffee-cake was delivered to my door to welcome our guests on their first morning, …my dear friend welcomed Sophia to her home for the afternoon, so that I could take some medicine, rest, and do a few necessary things in preparation for our week, …my sister suggested that she make the midnight airport run to pick up our friend, Jaimala, so that I could lie down and get some rest, …our kitchen was full of women on Friday & Saturday - packaging cards, preparing displays, cooking, and cleaning (!) to collectively prepare for Saturday’s guests.
It is one thing to talk about and appreciate community – but another thing, entirely, to NEED it! I needed my friends and family – and it was one of the highlights of this journey thus far!
November 11, 2006. The event itself – what a delightful day, indeed! About 60 folks – mostly women, but a few dear men and children, as well – came to support our work, meet some remarkable people in the community, sample extraordinary food from India, Indonesia, and Ethiopia, partner with artisans from all over the world, and listen to the remarkable stories of Jaimala, Winter, Heidi, and Anna. After the event was “over,” a large pot of soup was made and those who were still here were invited to stay for Armenian Lentil Soup…the last guest left after 10 p.m.! What a rich and delightful community we have around us! |
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