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Article

4 Dec 2009

Author:
The Peninsula [Qatar]

Sonia Rykiel bags at H&M Villaggio

...The Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB recently announced a new five-year project with Unicef called “All for Children,” backed by a $4.5m donation from H&M, to help improve the lives of children in one of the most disadvantaged cotton-growing communities in the world. The project aims to ensure children’s rights, lift them out of work and into education, while providing them with health and nutrition care, as well as build a protective environment to help prevent child labour. H&M customers can help in this project by buying an exclusive bag designed by Sonia Rykiel. The project, which is the longest and most wide-reaching initiative H&M has ever undertaken with Unicef, is focused on the children in the Salem and Dharmapuri districts in Tamil Nadu, India...