Not that I always maintain regular posting, but I’ll not (probably?) be posting for a couple weeks, as I leave Sunday night (or Monday morning, actually) for Kolkata, India with a group from my church. We are helping Freeset refurbish their new building to expand their business. Freeset make fair-trade, organic, eco-friendly and pretty stinkin’ classy jute bags; and they are expanding to making t-shirts with the new building. Their reason for existence is to provide alternative employment for Indian women who want out of the sex trade – a form of human trafficking.
Team 1 (3 people) is already over there now; our team (Team 2 – 11 people) goes this weekend; and Team 3 (4 people) go later in February. We’ve got a great range of people going over, from tradesmen to those just willing to pitch in wherever needed.