The choice of the date of 24 April is not trivial: it will be the day of commemoration of the disaster of Rana Plaza. It has been five years now since the Rana Plaza, an eight-storey building in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh, home to several garment shops, collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people and leaving some 2,500 wounded.
Programme:
12:20: Speech by Romain Schneider, Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action, followed by a speech by Michael Feit, member of the Executive Board of the Caritas Luxembourg Foundation, and Jean-Louis Zeien, President of Fairtrade Lëtzebuerg ASBL
12:30 - 13:30: Information booth and flyer distributions
The "Rethink your clothes" campaign, launched in March 2018 by the Minister of Cooperation and Humanitarian Action, Romain Schneider, together with Fairtrade Lëtzebeurg ASBL and the Caritas Luxembourg Foundation, aims to raise awareness of Luxembourg's challenges the textile industry and, in particular, to promote the improvement of the living and working conditions of cotton producers and workers in the textile and fashion sector of production and supply. It also seeks to show that another way of consuming is possible: more responsible and more aware of social and ecological issues.