Solidarity Goods

solidaritygoods — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:54:08 +0000

Solidarity Goods is a voluntary run shop, supported by the Edinburgh University Settlement. We provide a space for small, grassroots charities to sell goods where the profit goes directly back to the communities they are dedicated to helping. This is fairly traded, guilt free shopping. Our customers know that the money they are going to spend is going to help, for example, children in Afghanistan, Palestine and struggling communities in Mexico, rather than multinational corporations.

The Charities we are currently working with are Afghan Schools Trust, Project Hope (Palestine) and the Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group. We are also forming links with the Kerr Lai Women’s Association (Gambia) and hope to soon be selling stock from the Gambia that will generate money to support this project.

We also are home to the Hearty Squirrel Whole Food Co-op.

You too can help, by shopping, spreading the word or volunteering. Come and visit us, we have nice green tea!