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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 11:05 AM
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3. I read an article about this sort of thing the other day. The concern is that
textile donations in particular devastate indigenous clothing industries. So while sending a dress (or a few million t shirts with the superbowl logo of the team that wound up losing, or TOMS shoes) might feel good, in the long run it's actually harming the local economy and erasing local culture as expressed through clothes.

There's actually a term for this sort of well-meaning but harmful donation: SWEDOW. It stands for "stuff we don't want."

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/11/haiti_...
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  -Little Dresses for Africa - Do you know the basics of sewing? Scuba  Nov-09-11 10:43 AM   #0 
  - recommend  xchrom   Nov-09-11 10:46 AM   #1 
  - Very sweet.  peace13   Nov-09-11 10:55 AM   #2 
  - I read an article about this sort of thing the other day. The concern is that  LeftyMom   Nov-09-11 11:05 AM   #3 
  - When there's a little girl standing naked, clothing industries that she can't afford to buy from...  Scuba   Nov-09-11 11:09 AM   #4 
  - I don't think you do.  LeftyMom   Nov-09-11 11:19 AM   #5 
     - I'm much more in tune with your economics argument than your ....  Scuba   Nov-09-11 11:40 AM   #7 
     - They address the local industry issue --  Hell Hath No Fury   Nov-09-11 12:44 PM   #14 
        - Wouldn't it be better for me to simply send them money then?  Sirveri   Nov-10-11 04:41 AM   #22 
  - Well, this stuff is basic and the style kind of screams  Warpy   Nov-09-11 12:05 PM   #9 
  - Lighten up, Francis. nt  msanthrope   Nov-09-11 12:48 PM   #15 
  - No trouble because by next spring there will be plenty of little girls in the US that can use them.  peace13   Nov-09-11 07:50 PM   #18 
  - yep solar generators & sewing machines could "save" a family  SoCalDem   Nov-09-11 08:06 PM   #19 
  - I'm not so sure of this. Since when (the arrival of missionaries) did African children need to  sinkingfeeling   Nov-09-11 11:33 AM   #6 
  - Kinda boggled that people are still failtastic enough to talk in such monolithic terms. (nt)  Posteritatis   Nov-09-11 04:12 PM   #17 
  - like it or not, modernity has arrived, and naked girls (or boys)  SoCalDem   Nov-09-11 08:08 PM   #20 
  - I'll go even further and touch the gender stereotyping. Why not pants for girls?  riderinthestorm   Nov-09-11 12:02 PM   #8 
  - +1  redqueen   Nov-09-11 12:07 PM   #10 
  - Dresses are easier to make  drmeow   Nov-09-11 12:41 PM   #13 
  - You're damned if you do and damned if you don't when it comes to damn near EVERYTHING  in_cog_ni_to   Nov-09-11 12:22 PM   #11 
  - No sweat. Part of why I love DU. I'll pass along the thanks to my wife. n/t  Scuba   Nov-09-11 12:39 PM   #12 
     - I think our sewing guild did this last month for  eilen   Nov-09-11 04:04 PM   #16 
  - are you sending hope or destroying the african fabric market?  pitohui   Nov-09-11 08:49 PM   #21 
     - Please check their website. They address this in the FAQs.  Scuba   Nov-10-11 05:52 AM   #23 
 

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