Materialism that Makes a Difference

by Oct 13, 2006

Have $200 burning a hole in your wallet? Can’t decide between spending it on a new iPod and sending it to Africa for AIDS relief? Now you can do both. At the Product Red site, you can buy a special edition red iPod that will benefit the Global AIDS fund. Red Gap clothes, RAZR phones, and Converse shoes are also there.

Or maybe you’re in the market for home decorations. If so, check out the hand-woven baskets sold by Macy’s and made by widows in Sudan whose husbands were killed in the recent genocide. As importer Willa Shalit said, “When you see the child of a weaver, they have shoes, clean clothes, school uniforms, more than one set of clothing.” Shalit estimates a weaver’s income at $4 a day, as compared to the average income of $0.56 a day for the country.

And remember, you can always feed your materialism at Amazon and support Harbor at the same time. Just drag the link below to your favorites bar and use it everytime you shop. Harbor will get 5% of what you spend, and we won’t have any idea that you’re buying the Olivia Newton John box set.
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