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Sewing Machine Apparel regularly partners up with celebrities to design T-shirts to raise money for good causes. February’s “We Are No Different” campaign features the four presenters of Channel 3’s morning show “Woman to Woman”.
Buy one of their cotton slim-fit T-shirts in grey or white for Bt690 and Bt150 of that will go to the Tawanchai Foundation, which takes care of people born with cleft lips and cleft palate and congenital anomalies.
Find out more at www.SewingMachineApparel.com.
The virtue of Vertu
Also helping poor disfigured children receive cleft lip and cleft palate surgery is the luxury smart-phone maker Vertu, which continues its charity partnership with Smile Train.
Every purchase of the Vertu Constellation Smile handset will help fund surgery and speech therapy for some youngster aboard the Smile Train. It’s that simple – one purchase, one life changed.
The touch-screen smartphone is available in vibrant coral blue, coral red, pebble grey and anemone purple. Visit www.Vertu.com.
Keeping them out of the soup
Up to 73 million sharks are killed each year so their dorsal cartilage can be sliced off and made into shark’s-fin soup.
With the global population of these important creatures now in catastrophic decline, US Aid is sponsoring a campaign aimed at reducing the sale and consumption of shark fin in Thailand, with support of foreign and local artists and photographers.
The exhibition “100% Shark” at the WTF Gallery on Sukhumvit Soi 51 from February 21 to March 22 includes photos from Paul Hilton’s series on shark finning, which won a World Press Award last year. There are also recent images of an estimated 30,000 fins drying on urban rooftops.
Animal activist Jirayu Ekkul contributes underwater shots of sharks at leisure and an installation by an anonymous artist reflects on the mindless consumption that brings their doom. Silapakorn Kungsapichart will screen an educational video. Find out more at (02) 662 6246 or www.WTFBangkok.com.
