97
SOCIAL & ETHICAL
SUSTAINABLE
ECONOMIC
ENVIRONMENTAL will have significant impact on the daily lives of millions of textile workers in Bangladesh. We are proud to be a part of this project.
Child Labour And Poverty
Today, approximately 1 billion people live in extreme poverty – an overwhelming and figure. We can never accept this number in our quest for a sustainable society. Extreme poverty is linked to all the major challenges of the world and forces people to make impossible choices between food, medicine, housing and education. It is often a root cause to global problems like child labour and denial of basic freedoms.
Hand in Hand fights poverty with entrepreneurship. The organization aims to create 10 million jobs for some of the poorest residents of the world. The holistic approach of Hand in Hand includes education and training of women, effective abolishment of child labour, compulsory school attendance and environmental programs with focus on waste management, water treatment and biogas. The work involves whole communities, which gives Hand in Hand a unique impact on the livelihood of all villagers.
So far, Hand in Hand has created 1,7 million jobs and at the current rate, 1000 new jobs are being created each day. James Harvest Sportswear supports Hand-in-Hand with funds to enable three villages to participate in the project. Our villages are located in the textile region of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
More On The Environment
James Harvest Sportswear has two main strategies to decrease environmental impact and to cut our emissions of greenhouse gas. First of all, we must influence the transportation companies that we are working with. Our membership in“ Clean Shipping Index” aims to impact the shipping companies to use cleaner vessels by ranking the most high-performing ships. Our group of companies works with some of the largest transportation companies on the market, all of which have environmental programs in place for their operations.
Secondly, we always strive to improve our internal logistics and work methods. Within our group, we club together as much as possible of our shipments and transportations. In addition to protecting the environment, it also contributes to the streamlining of our operations. Recycling for a sustainable society To collect and recycle waste packages is a wonderful way to reduce environmental impact and create cradle-to-cradle circulation. James Harvest Sportswear embraces our producer responsibility and contributes financially to the collecting system where we operate. The Green Dot is our credential of participating in the Producer Responsibility Organization.
To learn more about our work with CSR, visit www. texet. se
J A M E S H A R V E S T S P O R T S W E A R