Hundreds of locals are preparing to spend a week in a sweatshop. It's part of the All's Fair Wear-athon which encourages locals to wear the same t-shirt for 110 hours in one week to learn practical ways to be fair while they shop. Program Director of the Peace Project with YFC/Youth Unlimited Woodstock, Dave Steenburg says no one overlooks the oppression of slavery but he feels they do with workers in sweat shops. "People just aren't imagining the reality of sweatshops so I was trying to think of how can I get them to imagine what it's really like? How can I get them into the experience of a sweat shop? and having read about a sweatshop that had it's workers at the factory for 110 hours a week, if we wore a t-shirt for 110 hours, we would know what 110 hours feels like." Steenburg says participants will receive daily emails from a woman who lived the experience of a sweatshop worker. "This year we are hearing the story told of a woman who, when she was 12, she was taken out of school and put to work in a sweatshop so we're getting her first hand experience of what it was like moving from school to a sweatshop." Steenburg says we need to change our shopping habits to support those companies who are trying to stop sweatshops. He says while you are asked to wear the shirt for 110 hours, you are able to wash it but are asked to do so after 11:30 pm. " The people in the sweatshop actually left at 6am to get to the factory, didn't get home until 11:30, not home, back to the dormitory and that's when they would have to shower and wash their clothes and things like that so we're encouraging people not to wash them while they're at work which is generally 7 in the morning until 11 at night." T-shirts can be purchased for $15 and are available at Imogene's WERCreations on Dundas Street with proceeds going to International Justice Mission Canada as well as Free the Children. The event is slated to take place May 1-7.
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