We have reached a significant shift in our travels moving away from tourist routes, sight seeing and history and are currantly staying with the wonderful Bob and Pam Toan (who we know from Chester). Bob and Pam work in Cambodia for interserve, supporting workers who come to Cambodia to help with various projects. Staying with Bob and Pam has given us the opportunity to visit a number of projects, helping to meet the individual and social needs of people in Cambodia. Our first stop was Justees please find some pics and more info below.
In its own words
Justees is a project in which young men
who have kicked their drug habit can work
for a fair wage while still continuing their
schooling through flexible work hours.
In Justees we highly value work as a
creative outlet and a means to earn a living.
The project aims to be self sufficient by selling the t-shirts it prints as its principle income. The t-shirts are made by a sewing co-operative under fair trade conditions. The t-shirt designs are made by either, the two heads of the project Dave and Steve (we meet Dave, a lovely Australian) or by graphic designers both local and international, who give their work for free. All their T-Shirts have a social justice message and are very well designed (in our opinion).
Justees also prints custom orders and when we visited they were working an an order for a local justice campaign. The campaign is fighting against land grabs which displace people by force and leave them homeless, so that those with power can develop land for business, tourism or government. We will talk more about this in a future post. The simple message of this print is "the whole world is watching" in English and Khmer. Emphasising that what they do and how they treat people will be recorded and shared, there is also a picture of a camera phone on the front of the t shirt.
Me and Michelle have many talents but T-shirt printing is not one of them. However Michelle found a useful job in helping the team fold up their latest catalogue/leaflet.
After talking with the staff and Dave for a bit we bought a few t-shirts and sadly said good bye. If you go to their website you can see they will deliver world wide. The T-Shirts are great and you will be supporting a great social enterprise project.
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