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No Sweat Crowdfunding Project

No Sweat is crowdfunding the money to expand our ethical T-shirt project.
Our T-shirts are unique because they are made in a workers co-op in Bangladesh run by former sweatshops workers and sold wholesale in the UK, for ready for people to print their own designs on. We then use the profits made to fund our campaign work and garment worker trade unions that fight for the rights of workers still stuck in the sweatshop nightmare.

Background:

No Sweat is a grassroots campaign group that, for the past 20 years, has been at the forefront of building solidarity with workers around the world in the fight against sweatshop exploitation.

About three years ago we looked at the growing trend for ‘ethical’ clothes and saw that not enough emphasis was being placed on workers rights, so we decided to start out own T-shirt label that helps promote the fight for sweatshop workers rights. Since then we have gone from strength to strength. We now import around 2,000 T-shirts every quarter, selling to bands, campaign groups and unions that want to print their logos and designs on a truly ethical T-shirt that helps fight exploitation.

Who Makes Our Clothes?

In 2013 the Rana Plaza building collapsed killing 1,136 people, many of the garment workers. Out of the this disaster emerged a new co-op called Oporajeo, which means ‘Invincible’ in Bengali, set up by some of the survivors, people that until now work in the sweatshop system.

The workers that make our T-shirts benefit from:
A living wage
A share of the profits
A provident fund
Interest free loans
Support with medical fees
Support with children’s education

While we are planning to switch to organic cotton, the T-shirts our partners produce are high quality, ‘slow fashion', made using cotton that is Oeko-Tex Standard 100 and Better Cotton Initiative certified.

Our production partners in Bangladesh show how a garment factory should be run.

But, No Sweat’s T-shirts are not just about benefiting the people that make them. No Sweat works in solidarity with the workers still facing exploitation in the sweatshop system.

We use the profits raised from our T-shirts to actively fund the fight against sweatshops, that means supporting workers fight for their rights. Garment worker unions give sweatshop workers a collective voice to struggle for better conditions. The profits from our T-shirts are used to fund these trade unions in Bangladesh and around the world.

The more T-shirts we sell, the more support we can give to the fight against sweatshop labour. This T-shirt fight’s sweatshops!


What’s the plan?
Over this past year we have seen our project grow dramatically and we can’t keep up with the demand with the numbers we are currently importing from the co-op. We want to dramatically increase number of T-shirts we import as well as expand to other items like hoodies and tote bags. However, for that we need money.

So we are looking to raise £15,000 to £20,000 so that we can import larger quantities to meet that demand. Raising this money will also give us the funds to start using organic cotton to make our T-shirts. So then the T-shirt that fights sweatshop, not only helps the people that make them, but is better for the planet as well.

What do I get for my donation?

We have a whole range of No Sweat campaign T-shirts to offer in reward for helping us achieve our goal, as well as some other goodies too.

We need your help!

This is a big task and we need all the help we can get. Please help us share this crowdfunding campaign across social media, email it to friends and comrades, treat yourself to a new No Sweat T-shirt through the crowdfunder, and help us reach our goal, so that we can make more T-shirt's that Fight Sweatshops!