EdunLIVE on Campus

I interviewed the co-president of EdunLIVE. This is a fairly new organization on campus but I thought it'd be a great group to interview because of their similarity to what we're trying to do. Basically, EdunLIVE sells T-shirts to student groups on campus. These T-shirts are completely made in Africa, everything from the actual making of the shirt (fair-trade) to the color printing on the shirts. By student groups purchasing these shirts, they are essentially giving money to the people who make these shirts: kids on the street. EdunLIVE gives job opportunities to kids on the street so they're doing something productive and able to make money for survival. Although Africa has much more dire conditions than we do here in Somerville, this is a good concept that could be implemented in our project to stimulate the economic recovery of Somerville. EdunLIVE said they would be interested in applying this same concept to the area od Somerville. Infact, they were working with a screen-printer in Somerville who was giving kids on the street jobs to work at his place. However due to the economic conditions he had to shut his shop and relocate. Also, since the organization is very new to campus, it only has about 3-4 members (mostly the founding members). Although this is small, this type of organization doesn't seem to require a lot of members because they are pretty much the middle-men that receive orders and get them made. Maybe if we wanted to ask this organization to continue this idea in Somerville, they could get some extra people to take care of this area.

All in all, I think this would be a great organization/idea to utilize in Somerville to help economic recovery.