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10-29-2003, 04:47 AM
From IMDB:
British actress Minnie Driver is quitting Hollywood to work in a Cambodian sweatshop. The Good Will Hunting star plans to write a book about her experiences in a Phnom Penh factory, to raise awareness about fair trade issues. Driver - who is currently dating American tennis ace Robby Ginepri - is so devoted to the cause, she has promised to spend "weeks, perhaps months" working alongside teenagers in the factory. She says, "I hope to make a documentary or at least write a book - with the help of a photographer friend of mine from the Washington Post newspaper - about working in a sweatshop in Cambodia. I will be working alongside other young women for as long as it takes for me to raise awareness of the fair trade issue. We in Britain and the Western world fuel the problem every time we buy clothes from any one of the major manufacturers which make goods in the Third World using cheap labor. I hope doing this will help raise standards, pay and conditions of employment in developing countries. Western companies should be paying a lot more to the workers in these sweatshops for the jobs they do. The inequality is shocking."
British actress Minnie Driver is quitting Hollywood to work in a Cambodian sweatshop. The Good Will Hunting star plans to write a book about her experiences in a Phnom Penh factory, to raise awareness about fair trade issues. Driver - who is currently dating American tennis ace Robby Ginepri - is so devoted to the cause, she has promised to spend "weeks, perhaps months" working alongside teenagers in the factory. She says, "I hope to make a documentary or at least write a book - with the help of a photographer friend of mine from the Washington Post newspaper - about working in a sweatshop in Cambodia. I will be working alongside other young women for as long as it takes for me to raise awareness of the fair trade issue. We in Britain and the Western world fuel the problem every time we buy clothes from any one of the major manufacturers which make goods in the Third World using cheap labor. I hope doing this will help raise standards, pay and conditions of employment in developing countries. Western companies should be paying a lot more to the workers in these sweatshops for the jobs they do. The inequality is shocking."