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For most of you reading this blog, I'd venture to say that traveling is something you love to do (and if you are lucky do often) or at least you might hold a romantic notion about traveling to foreign places, eating exotic foods and experiencing new cultures and places. I certainly do. I love to travel. Its a priority for me. I love doing it with my family and 2 year old daughter, who I'm pretty sure loves experiencing new places too (though I think we could do without the 12 hour plane rides...). 

But there is a dark side of travel for many disadvantaged people in the world. Human trafficking is a life changing experience of complete terror and vulnerability, where people (often women and children) are taken away from their homes and families and then bought and sold into slavery. Currently there are an estimated 27 million people being held as slaves in the world. They are forced to work in the sex industry or in labor camps in industries such as cocoa. It is disgusting and maddening that such crimes are committed so frequently in our "advanced" society. How can we let this happen?

So for all of you travel lovers, here is a small way that you can help. Lusso Bags is a sweet little company with a sweet little product and a big mission. They work with women in India from the fairtrade group, Freeset who have traded a life in the sex trade for a new life as a seamstress to make beautiful organic cotton and fairtrade shoe bags and other bags to help organize your suitcase and your life. Five percent of the cost of each bag is donated to help stop human trafficking. Its a win, win. You get to fill your suitcase or your diaper bag full of organized little bags of whimsy, while you are supporting women in their journey into a better life. 

We love Lusso Bags for - their clean, yet whimsical design sense; their great blog,  The Lusso Report on traveling, packing, fashion and socially conscious living; and their motto "Help a little...Help a lot." So next time you need to organize something, shop Lusso Bags and remember how you can help them to end human trafficking with your support. Happy travels!

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When you get out of bed and choose your outfit for the day. What is is saying about you? How do you feel? Are you co-ordinated, comfortable, proud to be wearing something which tells the world a little about you or does it give you a great feeling knowing that you stand for something? Is it creating a sustainable environment, a cleaner environment, a fairer work place, peace, education, a wage for a working mother to feed her children?

OR is it contributing to global pollution, disempowering poorly paid workers and compromising your  health and well-being?

Being a part of GoodieDo I have the good fortune of sourcing gorgeous clothing items which are benefical to others and to the earth. And in this great job perk, I get to try all of the empowering products before offering them to our fundraisers.  

For example I throw on a funky pair of tropical stripe organic, fairtrade, Pant to Poverty knickers, then an Omni Peace t-shirt , I dangle a Dialog handbag over my arm, and my outfit is almost complete minus the pants. I have constantly been on the lookout for a pair of pants or skirt/dress to complete my empowered outfit and finally I have found them.

I have recently been in contact with the yoga clothing company wear.it. Their approach to creating beautiful, fashionable clothing which is so comfortable it can be worn out or can be worn to practice yoga in is based on yogic principles of respecting communities and nature. Many of we'ars pieces are made from organic cotton or bamboo, and some of their dyes are plant based 'so when you have worn your t-shirt to shreds, you can throw it on the compost heap and let it feed back into the earth'. 

In manufacturing clothing it is often difficult for small companies to have strict production requirements which are beneficial to the environment and the workers and be competitively priced at the same time. Here is another example of an inspirational company basing their whole ethos on making the world a better place. Well done wear.it!

We are looking forward to offering some of we'ars  clothing pieces to GoodieDo fundraisers in near future. Stay tuned for notification of this exciting addition.

If you could make the world a healthier place and feel amazing in the fibers you wear knowing that your action as a consumer is changing the world for the better would you?

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Here he is 6 months now and comfortable as ever in his super soft Organic Family organic cotton jumpsuit and organic cotton long sleeved jacket. Even with all of his slobber from growing some new teeth he still manages to look cute. His name is Jude but I call him Mr Gorgeous. Every time I dress Jude in his Organic Family clothes I feel great knowing he will get a good nights sleep or have a really comfy day wearing these beautiful clothes. The material just feels amazing and looks beautiful too- we get so many great comments every time he wears them. If you are looking for a gift for a baby that says that you care even after giving it, over and over again, then you just cant go passed Organic Family's great range of baby clothes.

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