Freeset Kolkata India
We're excited to be developing and selling T-shirts and bags on behalf of Freeset.
Freeset is a business in Kolkata, India that offers sex workers an alternative occupation - freedom from forced exploitation.
Each Freeset T-Shirt and Bag tells a story of one woman's journey to freedom. She used to stand with 6,000 other prostitutes in a small but well known area of North Kolkata. She didn't choose her profession; it chose her. Poverty does that. It robs people of their dignity and children of their innocence.
She still lives in the same area, but instead of selling her body she makes Freeset T-Shirts and Bags. Now she has choices, the choice to work decent hours for decent pay, to re-establish her dignity in her community and to learn to read and write.
Now her daughter won't have to stand in the street selling her body like her mother used to. Freedom has been passed on to the next generation.
By purchasing a Freeset product, you become part of the story of freedom.
For an awesome and inspiring documentary on Freeset, checkout the DVD produced by John Sinclair available at Calcutta Hilton.
Fair Trade is all well and good - but we're going a step further by diverting our profits back to needy areas of the world. 'Fairer Trade'....
Check out the lone blue roof - that's Freeset, in the heart of Kolkata, India.
Visit the FreesetGlobal website here.
