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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Our Kubikka Tunic...fabulousness!

Our sleek Kubikka Tunic, features a flattering boat neckline, tailored hem and hidden side pockets (we love pockets!!!). Pairs perfectly with your favorite skinny jeans and sandals, leggings and booties, OR to follow the latest trend, semi-hidden bicycle shorts underneath, if you dare.

Made with 100% cotton fabric sourced in local Ugandan markets.

Wash with like colors in cold water & air dry, hot iron if needed (warm iron only for metallic prints).

Purchase HERE!

The Kutunga Peplum Top!

Our Kutunga Peplum-inspired Top has a mild flounce to its hemline, making this top a total stunner! We love it with cropped skinnies or dark-washed boot cuts, or try a sleek pencil skirt for the big meeting!

Front and back darts, side zip.

Made with 100% cotton fabric sourced in local Ugandan markets.

Wash with like colors in cold water & air dry, hot iron if needed (warm iron only for metallic prints).

Purchase HERE!

The Covera Paper Bag Skirt....

Our Covera Paperbag Skirt is a high-waisted, ultra cozy beauty. We love this skirt paired with a fitted blouse to dress up, or form-fitting tee for a more casual feel!

Front zip and button closure, hidden side pockets.

Made with 100% cotton fabric sourced in local Ugandan markets.

Wash with like colors in cold water & air dry, hot iron if needed (warm iron only for metallic prints).

Purchase HERE!

Sunday, June 9, 2013

a photographic journey: awava @ the west 18th street fashion show

We want to send a special thank you to the following people: ALL of the organizers of the West 18th Street Fashion Show for selecting our Apparel Designers, Margie Hogue & Heidi Herrman to grace the runway at Gilded Summer, Coki Bijoux for her beautifully intricate accessorizing and hosting our joint reception in her fantastic studio in the Bauer Building, Josef from Salon di Marco, and Christina & Geena from Xiphium Salon for a phenomenal hair & makeup job.

For inquiries on runway pieces, and for custom orders, please email Heidi at heidiherrman@gmail.com and Margie at margiehogue@awavamarket.com.

Fair Trade Publications

Bhagwati, Jagdish. Free Trade Today. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002
Bleaney, Michael, and David Greenaway. "The impact of terms of trade and real exchange rate volatility on investment and growth in sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Development Economics 65 (2001): 491-500
Irwin, Douglas A. Free Trade Under Fire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002
Littrell, Mary Ann and Marsha Ann Dickson. Social Responsibility in the Global Market: Fair Trade of Cultural Products. CA: Sage Publications, 1999
Nader, Ralph, et al. The Case Against Free Trade: Gatt, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power. CA: Earth Island Press, 1993
Redfern, Andy, and Paul Shedler. Creating Market Opportunities for Small Enterprises: Experiences of the Fair Trade Movement. SEED Working Paper #30, N/A: N/A, 2003
Stiglitz, Joseph E, and Andrew Charlton. Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development. Oxford: Oxford University Pres, 2005.
Vannoppen, Jan. "A Coordinated Market Economy to Benefit the Poor." Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management XLVIII, no. 4 (2003): 641-652

Learn about Uganda, Africa, Women's Issues and Development!

"Challenges and Change in Uganda." A Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Report. June 2005.
"More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic US Approach Towards Africa." The Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force Report No. 56.
AFRICOM's Ugandan Blunder
Akallo, Grace. "Aboke Girls"
Allen, Tim. Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court ad the Lord's Resistance Army. Claremont: David Philip, 2006
Brownback, Sam & Sterns, Richard, "Africa's Forgotten War"
Bruck, Connie. "Millions for Millions" in The New Yorker (October 30, 2006)
Case Closed: A Prosecutor Without Borders
Easterly, William. "The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics"
Easterly, William. "The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good"
Goldstein, Joshua S. War and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Human Righs Watch, "The Scars of Death"
International Crisis Group, Peace in Northern Uganda?
Kyomuhendo, Grace Bantebya, and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Women, Work and Domestic Virture in Uganda. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2006
Mayoux, Linda. "Questioning Virtuous Spirals: Micro-Finance and Women's Empowerment in Africa." Journal of International Development (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.) 11 (1999): 957-984
Meredith, Martin. "The Fate of Africa"
MS Uganda, "Northern Uganda: Poverty reigns despite big relief"
Nagarajan, Geetha. Microfinance in Post-Conflict Situations: Towards Guiding Principles for Action. Workshop , Joint ILO/UNHCR Workshop on Microfinance in Post-Conflict Countries, Geneva: The Ohio State University/Calmeadow, 1999
Nampewo, Angela. "Uganda: Baryamujura Turns Fate Into Success"
Nannyonjo, Justine. "Conflicts, poverty and human development in Northern Uganda." The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 94, no. 381 (2005): 473-488
Okidi, John A., and Gloria K. Mugambe. An Overview of Chronic Poverty and Development Policy in Uganda. Working Paper 11, Economic Policy Research Centre, Kampala: Chronic Poverty Research Centre, 2002
Pitt, Mark M., Shahidur R. Khandker, and Jennifer Cartwright. Does Micro-Credit Empower Women? Evidence from Bangladesh. Policy Research Working Paper, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2003
Redfern, Andy, and Paul Shedler. Creating Market Opportunities for Small Enterprises: Experiences of the Fair Trade Movement. SEED Working Paper #30, N/A: N/A, 2003
Relief Web, "Economic cost of the conflict in Northern Uganda"
Sachs, Jeffrey. "The End of Poverty"
Schumacker, EE "Buddhist Economics" in Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Matterd
Snyder, Margaret. Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom. Kampala: Fountain Publishers Ltd, 2000
Tuyizere, Alice P. Gender and Development: The Role of Religion and Culture. Kampala: Fountain Publishers Ltd, 2007
Visvanathan, Nalini, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff, and Nan Wiegersma. The Women, Gender and Development Reader. New Jersey: Zed Books Ltd., 1997
What is a Social Entreprenuer?
Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children, Against all Odds: Surviving the War on Adolescents. Promoting the Protection and Capacity of Ugandan and Sudanese

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Our Kubikka Tunic...fabulousness!

The Kutunga Peplum Top!

The Covera Paper Bag Skirt....

Sunday, June 9, 2013

a photographic journey: awava @ the west 18th street fashion show