Saturday 30 March 2013
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Thank you from Pants 4 Asia
I'd just like to say thank you to everyone who liked the Pants4Asia Facebook page, followed us on Twitter and watched our Youtube videos. We saw the judges today (a little like Dragon's den) and we pitched our Business plan, told them why we love the charity so much and how we will be helping the children, farmers and factory workers in India. We believe in this charity so much and it has honestly touched our hearts. We want to help the charity so much and can't wait to help out.
We came first out of the 6 groups today and we worked so well as a team. I have to say I am so proud of us and I think it came across that we are truly and honestly so passionate about giving to India. We got these awesome books 'Welcome to the Entrepreneur country' which I am so excited about getting to read and a box of chocolates that we shared. We then told our tutors, they are so proud of us too. We will be selling briefs, boxers, pants, knickers, vests, pyjamas and so on. They are for men and women and I'd love if some of you guys could buy some of the items. I'll have an Ebay account and maybe Amazon selling these items. We will be starting after Easter so make sure you keep checking out our official blog, Facebook, Youtube & Twitter.
Here are some of the items we will be selling.
Here are some of the items we will be selling.
Saturday 23 March 2013
Hard at work...
I am currently putting together our power point ready for our meeting on Wednesday. I had to blur the text as you can't see it until we have had the meeting Wednesday. Of course this isn't all of our power point, just the main points the rest will be spoken. I am so excited and can't wait to tell the panel of judges how much this charity honestly means to us. We are now so passionate about something we wouldn't have even thought about two months ago. I am so thankful to everyone who has been helping us go forwards with this.
Friday 22 March 2013
Long day
We have been super busy today at the 'office' we have been editing our new video, taking pictures of all our amazing friends and writing up our power point for the meeting next Wednesday with P2P. We hope to have our video up tonight before 19:00 so make sure you check back soon to watch it.
Thursday 21 March 2013
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Think before you buy
Thousands of Indian cotton farmers kill themselves each year because of the clothes you wear!
India is an agrarian country with around 60% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. (The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide) and farmer suicides in India have been making headlines since the mid 1990s. With £1 = 80.85 rupees and the farmers earning on average 100 rupees a day (£1.24 a day) you can see how they are struggling to make ends meet and to make things worse it costs 950 rupees (£11.79) for a kilogram bag of seed!
Some facts:
- More than 17,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in 2009, a seven percent rise on the previous year, according to new government figures.
- The Fairtrade Minimum Price for seed cotton from India is $0.46/kg for organic and $0.38/kg for conventional
- Now for the first time suicides by farmers, including those in 2011 and 2012, have been definitively linked to the declining performance of the GM cotton. - Read more.
- It is the low prices for cotton and high prices for chemicals have caused tens of thousands of farmers to go bankrupt.
- Thousands of Indian farmers sold their kidneys into the world organ market to pay their pesticide and fertilizer bill to Monsanto, Cargill or multinational banks.
Friday 8 March 2013
A little more about us
We will be uploading videos on Youtube very soon. Make sure you help out by liking the page and youtube account!
Twitter - www.twitter.com/Pants4Asia
Youtube - www.youtube.com/user/Pants4Asia
Facebook - www.facebook.com/Pants4Asia
Email - pants4asia@hotmail.co.uk
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The Team
The Team
There are 4 members of the Pants 4 Asia team, each member is highly valued and we wouldn't be able to do this without each other. We all have our strengths and compliment each other well.
Studies: Travel & Tourism Level 2
Matheus is our main man, the only man in fact. He will be directing, leading and guiding us to success, he will also be evaluating our success and making sure we hit our weekly and monthly targets. Matheus will make sure he understands our external and internal competition allowing us to always be one step of the game and ready to up our game He also speaks Portuguese and can help you if you'd prefer the write in Portuguese.
Studies: Travel & Tourism Level 3
This is me. I am person in charge of all the advertising, I made the Facebook page, Youtube account, Twitter page, this website. I do nearly all the graphics and reply to emails and comment posts. It is 99% likely you will be speaking to me if you have anything to talk to us about. I will be uploading any pictures, videos and doing any prize giveaways.
Studies: Travel & Tourism Level 2
Nakemin does all the market research, I have added a poll on our website and Facebook and she will gather all the information and feed it back to us to help us improve. Nakemin will also speak with companies and other influential people (can't give too much away right now) and find out how they feel about the charity and how we can keep moving forward. She also speaks French and can help you if you'd prefer the write French.
Studies: Travel & Tourism Level 3
Phyllis is in charge of finance. She will be providing us with all our financial information we need. She will let us know how much money goes to the charity, how much the charity needs to help save peoples lives and how much each product costs. She will also let us know the new prices when we can give a discount and the price when people buy in bulk. She will be working insanely hard monitoring the cash flow and predicting how much money will go to charity each month.
Thursday 7 March 2013
About Us
We are a social enterprise group made up of 4 travel and tourism students from London, England who have a thirst for knowledge and want to gain awareness for the cotton farmers and factory workers in India. We want people to think Asia, think different. 'A social enterprise is an organization
that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human
and environmental well-being, rather than maximising profits for
external shareholders.' It did start of as just a patrepreneurship project with our college but each day we get more and more invested in this charity and it has honestly pulled on our heartstrings. We know as students and even as adults we normally only think about ourselves or our own country but when you really look into it we are extremely lucky with what we get here in the UK.
Primarily we are aiming to gain as much awareness as physically possible. We will be doing this via social platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and of course this website. We want to encourage people to give to charity and help out these people to truly need it.
As a team we will be selling pants/briefs and pyjamas for pants to poverty to earn money for farmers and factory workers in India allowing them to live a fulfilled life. (which they deserve)
Primarily we are aiming to gain as much awareness as physically possible. We will be doing this via social platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and of course this website. We want to encourage people to give to charity and help out these people to truly need it.
As a team we will be selling pants/briefs and pyjamas for pants to poverty to earn money for farmers and factory workers in India allowing them to live a fulfilled life. (which they deserve)
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