first of all, due to the weather last year, we will ALL be paying more for cotton.... you will have to find other ways to address the problem of child labor, especially as many countries need for every able bodied person in the family to work in order to feed themselves, just food, not luxuries, just daily food. We all want a living wage for every worker, worldwide, but that is not the way things are... now we have to try to do what we can to help... my favorite donor program is the PlanUSA Gift of Hope. Our family has no small children right now so we moved to a 'Christmas Stocking' only program a few years ago. We all just buy something small for everyone else's stocking. And then we get together during Christmas dinner (or whenever our get together is scheduled, and we choose which animals we are going to donate this year. These range from $5 for chicks to milk cows ($200) and a pair of pigs ($290) and are donated to a family to help them support themselves throughout the year. Personally, I always vote for the goats... $75 for an animal that gives you milk, cheese, meat and hide, will literally eat anything available, and are actually wonderful pets as well ...that is a bargain. Personally, our group just chucks money into a big salad bowl when we enter the house and then we all vote on what to buy later. Sometimes, we only can afford one or two animals, and sometimes we have a big group at dinner and we can send several.... it works for us.
http://www.planusa.org/content156580...IzNzA2LA%3D%3D
Pay what you have to pay to support an artistic hobby that we all love. Do what you can for any program that you can to help the world economy.