Solidarity Clothing is a partnership in the truest sense of the word. We believe that consumers, retailers, and wholesalers can work together with producers in a developing country, and help them earn a living wage for their families.
Our vision about poverty is simple and powerful. We believe that no person working a full day should live in poverty; that all labor, no matter how unskilled, should enable a person to feed his family; and that all labor should be dignified by a living wage that covers the basic needs: food, a decent home and sanitation, medical care and education.
While we in the developed countries have everything we desire and even more, the majority of people live a life in dire poverty, a never ending story of unemployment, underemployment, hopelessness, illness and deprivation. We live in luxury while millions of children in poor countries go without education, medical care and often even without a meal per day.
Whatever the reasons for these inequalities, the situation is fundamentally unfair, and pressures people into abandoning their countries in search of a better future. Ironically, the workers who leave often times end up facing yet another type of human misery as illegal immigrants in countries that don't welcome them.
At Solidarity Clothing we believe that an act as simple as shopping can have a tremendous impact on poverty alleviation if we purchase directly from the poor.
 Purchasing from Solidarity Clothing means exactly this: bringing business to the poor. It's simple and easy. The only costs added to the producer price are shipping and marketing: the cost to bring the product to YOU. |
Here's how it works:
Step 1: We buy directly from cooperatives in the poorest neighborhoods and pay the workers a labor rate four times higher than the local market.
Step 2: We import the products without intermediaries and without profit.
Step 3: We sell directly to the public for a price that covers our cost for marketing the products. You get a great shirt for a fair price.
Step 4: Big orders reduce our cost. Therefore we give big discounts for orders of 25 shirts or more.
Step 5: Our profits are reinvested in programs for the benefit of the poor in Bolivi
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