Comments on: Let us Make Kunta Kinte Proud of his Legacy http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/03/25/let-us-make-kunta-kinte-proud-of-his-legacy/ Make it Happen For Yourself and for the World Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:36:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gareth http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/03/25/let-us-make-kunta-kinte-proud-of-his-legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-242 gareth Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:06:16 +0000 http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/03/25/let-us-make-kunta-kinte-proud-of-his-legacy/#comment-242 Responsible purchasing is something we can all do. Look at all the cheap shoes, clothes and so on in the shops in the UK. Can we all say for certain they weren't made in sweat shops or slave type conditions. It's not easy to find out but it is possible. 10 years ago I helped set up a factory in India and one of the things we did was spot check our suppliers to make sure no child labour, forced labour or abhorant practises were used by our suppliers. I found one firm had very dubious practises and worked very hard with them to correct this. I could have stripped them of the business but this would have left the workers even worse off. Fixing the issue was, I felt, a better option. However there is still a lot of forced slavery in India and many other countries in Asia, children are sold even today. Research you purchases people, don't just see the bargain. If it looks to good to be true then it probably arrived via someone else's misery. Responsible purchasing is something we can all do. Look at all the cheap shoes, clothes and so on in the shops in the UK. Can we all say for certain they weren’t made in sweat shops or slave type conditions. It’s not easy to find out but it is possible.
10 years ago I helped set up a factory in India and one of the things we did was spot check our suppliers to make sure no child labour, forced labour or abhorant practises were used by our suppliers. I found one firm had very dubious practises and worked very hard with them to correct this. I could have stripped them of the business but this would have left the workers even worse off. Fixing the issue was, I felt, a better option. However there is still a lot of forced slavery in India and many other countries in Asia, children are sold even today.
Research you purchases people, don’t just see the bargain. If it looks to good to be true then it probably arrived via someone else’s misery.

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