Seamstress, tailor, shoe-repair, upholsterer, or banner maker needed to help fair-trade enterprise
ORGANIZATION: JCP CACE cc
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The Center for Amazon Community Ecology is a non-profit organization that promotes forest conservation in the Peruvian Amazon. We help native artisans (mostly women) develop and market innovative handicrafts in the U.S. and support better health and education in their communities.
One of the main ways that we sell these handicrafts are at music festivals and craft fairs in the summer. We have several standard pop-up canopy tents that we use to display our products at these events that need some repairs and customization. These include fixing/replacing a few zippers and torn walls and sewing on fabric strips to accommodate easy attachment of banners. The main canopy is made from 500D polyester; the walls are made from 150D polyester. We need someone who can either do these repairs/additions by hand or with help from a heavy-duty sewing machine. This could be someone who has experience as a seamstress or tailor, upholsterer, repairing shoes, or making banners with grommets.
Please contact us if you can help. We need to get these tents in good shape before our festival season starts in the third week of May.
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About JCP CACE cc
Location:
1200 Market St., PMB# 285, Lemoyne, PA 17043, US
Mission Statement
The mission of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology is to promote the understanding, conservation and sustainable development of human and other biological communities in the Amazon region. Our three strategies are research, community support and education. One of our main goals is to study the ecology and develop the sustainable harvest and marketing of non-timber forest products such as fruits, fibers, resins, and oils. We also work with indigenous and other forest peoples to sustain local resources and support their communities.
Description
The main strategies for achieving our goals are research, community support, and education. This will include investigating the ecology and sustainable harvest of non-timber forest products (like resins, fruits and fibers) and assisting indigenous and other forest-based communities to manage and market them to support local development and conservation. This will require reaching out to and connecting many people and communities in the Amazon and abroad. CACE is a member of the Fair Trade Federation.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
161 E. Aaron Dr.State College, PA 16803
DATE POSTED
April 25, 2018
SKILLS
- Exhibition Arts
- Sewing
- Upholstery
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- 3 to 10 hours
- experience with heavy-duty sewing