Fairtrade sports balls
Hand stitched — but not by children
Football (size 5): reduced to £12.50
Basket ball (size 7): reduced to £8.00
Beach vollyball (size 4): reduced to £12.50
DID YOU KNOW: The controversial Jabulani 2010 World Cup ball was not hand-stitched at all, but made by a thermo-bonding process patented by Adidas. For many, there is no substitute for a ball hand-stitched in Sialkot, Pakistan — by grown-ups of course!
Two thirds of the world’s hand-stitched footballs are produced in the Sialkot region of north eastern Pakistan. Child labour has now been officially banned due to international concern, but low wages mean the pressure to dodge the ban remains. These Fairtrade-certified balls are produced under an agreement which ensures that workers are paid enough so that their children do not need to participate in the production work and a Fairtrade 'premiums’ are channelled into initiatives such as water filtration, health centres and childcare facilities. The bladders (or the entire ball in the case of the basketball) are made from FSC-certified sustainably cultivated latex rubber. The outer panels are from polyurethane rather than PVC.
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