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The Fair Trade Pop Up Shop- Sponsors and Partners
Enactus students at The University of Western Australia are teaming up with Oxfam, the WA Fair Trade Collective and Fair Trade suppliers to launch the Fair Trade Pop Up Shop 2013. Coinciding with Fair Trade Fortnight, the Pop Up Shop, located on the corner of Hay and King streets, will run from 4-19 May 2013. Selling Fair Trade tea, coffee, ...
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Empower Camp : A Recount
Enactus UWA collaborated with Engineers Without Boarders UWA and Curtin to organise Empower Camp, the freshman camp of the semester. The two day camp was held in Fairbridge Village,Pinjarra. On the morning of the 16th of February, the participants gathered eagerly at the Bell Tower. Transport was arranged to drive them to Pinjarra. Before driving off, participants had the opportunity to interact with co campers via ice breaker activities. As it was also the day of the State ...
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Pop Up Shop Plays a Pivotal Role in UWA Fair Trade Accreditation
In March 2013, UWA became the first University in Western Australia to be recognised as a Fair Trade university. The Fair Trade Pop Up shop played a pivotal role in this process from the student body's point of view, both in terms of fostering fair trade values amongst students and gaining support for the accreditation from students and staff, alongside the UWA Sustainable Development Unit, during UWA's social justice week. Check out the UWA Fair Trade Journey ...
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A Well Spent Saturday
Last Saturday turned out to be a very productive day for us. The Enactus UWA team along with faculty advisors Doina and Brett gathered in the morning to brainstorm ideas for the next half of the year and find solutions to our current problems. The morning session focused on whole team approach. Together, we reviewed our progress in the past 6 months and also came up with an exciting yet realistic ...
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projectTHINK: Successful Delivery of First Massive Order
The first couple of weeks of 2013 here at Enactus UWA have been really exciting. We’re organising more shoe collection events, getting ready for yet another Fair Trade Pop Up Shop and consolidating our brand to create an online fair trade store, and screen printing THINKbags.
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reSHOE: The Shoe Move
Yesterday marked yet another busy but fruitful day for some Enactus UWA members. We gathered in the wee hours of the morning to consolidate, pack and move the shoes collected thus far from the THINK factory to our proper storage venue, Rand Transports. As soon as we arrived at the factory after collecting the pallet bins ...
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Boxes, Bins and a Bunch of shoes, ReSHOE’s gaining momentum!
We don’t even know where to begin. It’s been a crazy few months but things are definitely shaping up for ReSHOE. Boxes ordered, bins donated, and thousands upon thousands of shoes collected. The team is also in the process of organising a formal relationship with an Enactus team in Ghana to establish the distribution channels for the microfinance element of the project. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our various sponsors and supporters. Big ...
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reSHOE Collection Begins!
Shoe collection for SIFE UWA’s reSHOE project began earlier this week, with our first collection bins being distributed to the PwC office! The reSHOE team aims to have 15,000 pairs of shoes collected by early October, and collects from offices, universities, sports clubs and schools. Shoes collected by reSHOE will be sorted and packed by ...
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2012 National Champions!
SIFE UWA has been given the honour of representing Australia at the 2012 SIFE World Cup in Washington DC, from 30 September – 2 October. At the SIFE Australia National Championships in July, SIFE UWA was chosen as Australia’s National Champion from 24 teams by business executives, university representatives, and community leaders from around the country. We would like to thank all of our partners, sponsors, our ...
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projectTHINK; introducing the real “green” bag and empowering international and local communities along the way
projectthink, an initiative by Enactus UWA (originally called SIFE), is introducing a new product into the packaging industry; the jute bag. Jute bags are unique in that they are 100% biodegradable and have zero environmental burden. It removes women from the sex trade in India by engaging them in the ...