Fair Trade in the Global Apparel Industry

The University of Delaware cordially invites you to join our next live, audio FIBERcast -- "Fair Trade in the Global Apparel Industry" -- on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at 11 a.m. Eastern.

Join co-host Dr. Marsha Dickson of the University of Delaware and board member of the Fair Labor Association, and her guests Ms. Pushpika Freitas, founder and president of MarketPlace: Handwork of India, which supports fair trade products made by artisans in India, and Ms. Renee Bowers, buyer for Ten Thousand Villages, the largest fair trade retailer in the United States.

They will explore these and other important topics:

* What does fair trade really mean?

* How does fair trade benefit workers in developing countries?

* How do we know whether a product is fair trade or not?

During the FIBERcast, you will be able to e-mail questions to Dr. Dickson and her guests.

Please click here to pre-register for the live event.

If this time is inconvenient, you can listen to past FIBERcasts at this Web site

(http://udcapture.udel.edu/events/fibercast/).

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