Combating Systemic Poverty Through Empowerment & Partnership
Location
The Commons : Skylight Room
Date & Time
March 11, 2014, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Description
Please join Student Life's Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity as we welcome our spring speaker, Faizun Kamal, entrepreneur, social change maker and CEO/Founder of SourceFK.
To learn more about Faizun Kamal and SourceFK, watch their debut on HuffPost Life, discussing the state of the Bangladeshi garment industry and the OM Campaign with Soulside OUT: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/#r/segment/sweatshop-fire-bangladesh%2C-sweatshop%2C-big-box-retail%2C-workers-die-fire%2C/5125367c78c90a3b72000065.
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Co-sponsored by the English Language Institute, Gender and Women's Studies, Humanities LLC, Interdisciplinary Studies, Oxfam and the Women's Center. Additional co-sponsors to be announced.
As Chief Sourcer of sourceFK, Faizun leads sourceFK’s unique business approach to empowering women in Asia. An innovative company with a social mission, sourceFK addresses systemic poverty by partnering with Asian women artisans and connecting them to global markets and training.
Of SourceFK, Faizun says “Our business model reflects a new vision of luxury that highlights human creativity not technology, respect for the environment and decency in employment.”
----------------------------------------------------To learn more about Faizun Kamal and SourceFK, watch their debut on HuffPost Life, discussing the state of the Bangladeshi garment industry and the OM Campaign with Soulside OUT: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/#r/segment/sweatshop-fire-bangladesh%2C-sweatshop%2C-big-box-retail%2C-workers-die-fire%2C/5125367c78c90a3b72000065.
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Co-sponsored by the English Language Institute, Gender and Women's Studies, Humanities LLC, Interdisciplinary Studies, Oxfam and the Women's Center. Additional co-sponsors to be announced.
For more information about this event or co-sponsorship opportunities, please contact mosaic@umbc.edu. This event is free and open to the UMBC community and the public.
