like sufjan?

Like Sufjan?

Well, you can buy his music AND help provide freedom for women on the other side of the world. Sufjan Stevens teamed up with Welcome Wagon (a cute couple duo: Thomas Vito & Monique Aiuto) for Purity of the Heart is to Will One Thing, a four-song EP of the group's signature folksy tunes; it includes an early demo of "Up On a Mountain," recorded around a kitchen table with Sufjan and Vito playing guitars (so artsy), as well as the first song Vito ever wrote-- "There is a Fountain Filled With Blood." And you can buy it (exclusively) from iTunes for (only!) $3.96-- and each cent of that will work towards freeing women from sex trade in India.

Welcome Wagon and Asthmatic Kitty (their producing record label) are partnering with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship's Urbana 2009's International Poverty Track and FreeSet Global in an effort to help end the sex trade industry in the Sonagachi red light district, Kolkata, India’s most infamous sex trade community.

SO what should you do?

• Download Welcome Wagon's EP from iTunes.

All the proceeds will go toward launching a new dignified career for women who want to escape the sex trade.

And where exactly do the proceeds go?

FreeSet Global is an organization based in India (my mother country) that works to sustainably employ women out of the sex trade industry. Since their inception, they've come to be known for a variety of fair trade, organic jute handbags (which you might want to check out here). Looking forward, the company is reaching to increase the amount of women they can rescue from the sex trade industry in Sonagacchi, by developing a new T-shirt line.

The proceeds from The Welcome Wagon's EP will be solely donated to the development of FreeSet Global’s new T-Shirt facility.

every

single

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Downloading the EP will help to save over 45 women trapped in the sex trade industry (including their families) and create a sustainable work for future generations of women in Sonagacchi who are working towards climbing the ladder of economic development.

Kind of awesome. So if you like music, and you want to help people, what are you waiting for?

check it out

Peace out, peoples. Enjoy your new muzac. I know I love it. So much love for Sufjan&co.

-C&C