Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:18:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Arts, Development, Charity and Colonialism





you might want to check out the policy that ten thousand villages adopts.
here's the description pulled from their web site at www.villages.ca:

"Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by
marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America.

 Ten Thousand Villages works with artisans who would otherwise be
unemployed or underemployed. This income helps pay for food, education,
health care and housing. Thousands of volunteers in Canada and the United
States work with Ten Thousand Villages in their home communities.

 Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit program of Mennonite Central
Committee (MCC), the relief and development agency of Mennonite and
Brethren in Christ churches in North America. Ten Thousand Villages has
been working around the world since 1946."

take care,
tuna
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On that note, any thoughts on "fair trade" and the representational
strategies involved in selling "handicrafts" and their related politics
(preserving "tradition," "trade not aid," et cetera)? Does anyone know if
there's a standard fair trade arrangement, and how much of the profit from
these crafts actually go to the artisans/workers? If it varies, how much
does it vary?

Mimi Nguyen


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