Something to Love

This week's Relevant Magazine e-newsletter featured a story about the Rosa Loves organization. This company, started by a couple friends over some cups of coffee, is dedicated to the idea that the things we do every day, and the things we often simply take for granted, can serve to do good for people all over the world. They believe in the power of people to change the world in tangible ways, and have taken that idea to the clothing world.


From their website:

We hope to encourage individual people to get involved in the community around them on a somewhat tangible scale. We will accomplish this by providing financial support to those in need by infiltrating the t-shirt industry with a new perspective of how clothing can serve a purpose other than outfitting. Everyone has a story. Everyone has a need. By using art and creativity, we hope to foster hope and encouragement through the aid of apparel. Each story will be told through stimulating graphics and actual text that will appear on the inverse of the shirt directly in line with the heart, where the Rosa Loves movement stems from.

Rosa Loves is less about charity and more about awareness, awareness that we are all apart of something greater and are therefore joined by common threads.

In a world concerned with justice and integrity, we often talk about free trade and fair trade, about living on things not produced in sweatshops or by child labor. I would like to think that Rosa Loves is taking it one step further - not only refusing to support oppressive practices financially, but taking those same dollars to places that are rebuilding our world. This is some clothing I would be proud to wear.