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| Pockets of Dreams
Every purchase helps eliminate poverty in Africa and Asia
Pockets of Dreams is a Girls' Boutique of stylish fair trade clothes and accessories. Girls' sizes range from size 2 to size 10.
With your purchase, we award a grant to an African seamstress to build her own home business.
The PoD Story
Knowing that it is not possible to eliminate poverty all by ourselves, we created a company to make money for the express purpose of giving it away. Firmly believing that women around the world spend themselves on behalf of their families, we created a grant program to assist women in developing countries to expand their own sewing businesses. This is our unique answer to the challenge of sweat shops.
Why Girls?
Girls are often at greater risk for exploitation than boys in developing countries. By offering girls clothes, PoD is deliberately removing the distance between 'our' daughters in the west and 'their' daughters in the developing world.
Why Clothes?
In every culture and at every socio-economic level, people wear clothes. Therefore, the demand for clothes is found in every community, in every country of the world, making it an ideal business opportunity.
Why Seamstresses?
Sewing is a very natural home business in many developing nations. By opening her own sewing shop, a seamstress can work while remaining close to her children. Through partnering with PoD, an African Seamstress receive grants to help build her own sewing business. With very little capital, a seamstress is equipped to grow her own business which supports her family helping to end the cycle of poverty.
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