See the complete range of Justees shirts at www.justees.org!

Also don’t forget to ‘like’ the Justees Facebook page.

Now it is even easier to buy your Justees t-shirt online using the new shopping cart facility and Paypal. Just fill in the drop down menu on your chosen product’s page and your shopping cart will appear on the bottom right hand side. When you have finished shopping click the Check Out button and pay using Paypal.

Justees will be on holiday for the next two weeks. We will be starting back on January 2nd. Until that time we might be a bit sluggish with your orders.

Wishing everyone a Just and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~

For a short time only Justees is offering a free tee-shirt of your choice.

All you have to do is organise an order for 10 shirts or more and for every 10 shirts ordered you can choose 1 tee for free.

Download the flyer with current available t-shirt designs here and the order form here and get orders for Christmas from your workmates, your sports group, your church group, youth group, school mates.

It’s easy!

Rahul is a young man with a big smile, and a big sense of ambition concerning his future. But things were not always looking this hopeful for him or his family. By the age of 11, Rahul had only made it as far as 2nd grade, and was not able to study regularly because his family could not afford the unofficial school fees. Rahul was forced by family poverty to drop out, and he would roam the streets collecting tin cans to recycle for small amounts of cash.

Fair trade is a great idea. But how fair is fair? What is ‘fair enough’? What about fairly fair?

I like the idea of fair trade. It’s about trying to work together for a better world. Imagine a world in which everyone in the queue from raw producers to retailers were all working for wages and conditions that are compatible with an adequate standard of living (whatever that is). Imagine a world in which goods were manufactured and consumed in a way that was sustainable to the environment. Starting to sound to like John Lennon song…

A while ago I had the awesome experience of a concert by U2, arguably the biggest rock band in the world. It was a truly spirit-filled experience. The same week I had been reading about John the Baptist. The comparison between Jono the Baptist and Bono the lead singer of U2 popped into my mind and wouldn’t leave me alone. Here was Bono, set apart from the core of institutional religion, in a religious sense out in the wilderness, with crowds being attracted to him. Here was Bono, just like Jono, preaching a version of, “repent, for the kingdom of God is near”. 80000 people in NZ heard the gospel message that weekend. Not from pulpits and lecterns but through rock music and the spiritual gift of a contemporary prophet.

Art and revolution have always mixed. The Beatles in singing the song this post is named after were simply singing about a common trend amongst artists the world over. 

A couple of weeks ago Justees turned one year old! We planned to take the boys out to the Phnom Penh Water park but an unusual cold snap gave us all cold feet. Instead we celebrated by going to a shopping mall, eating pizza, and going roller blading. We also printed special “Justees: One Year Already” shirts for each of the boys and staff.

Wondering what to buy for Christmas? How about a Justees?

Download the 2010 Justees Christmas Flyer here and share it with your friends. Every shirt you buy helps keep these young men in school.

In Cambodia there are many things around the traps that are spelt wrong. Menus are particularly amusing. For example: How many different ways you can spell French fries? The most common you see being “French fried”, but other regulars include: French frites, French frits and French fri’s.

Steve and Sarvouen were interviewed recently for a Radio Australia broadcast looking at the issue of drug use in Cambodia and Justees. You can listen to the broadcast here. Chouen, a friend of ours from our partner organization, TASK, was also interviewed.

A social enterprise in Cambodia is promoting fair trade practices while helping recovering drug addicts overcome their afflictions. Justees, a portmanteau of “just” and “tees”, is providing young men with jobs printing t-shirts that display positive messages. The organization also gives its staff the flexibility to continue their schooling. Justees emphasizes the value of hard work and is committed to operating as a self-funding project; it encourages its staff to take ownership in the success or failure of the project. The shirts are sold in Cambodia and in other countries worldwide.

To coincide with the launch of this new website Justees is beginning a t-shirt design competition.

Apparently, on average, T-shirts are read 3000 times during their lifetime making them a powerful means of communicating and a great chance to get your justice message out to a worldwide audience.

“There’s nothing new under the sun”, says the wise old bloke who wrote Ecclesiastes. Many times in my life I have had to agree. Walking around markets frequented by tourists is defintely one of those times. Shiny trinkets, pewter ornaments, brass Buddhas, wooden elephants, bamboo pipes are repeated stall after stall and city after city.

Silk scarves, bags, DVDs and T-shirts are everywhere and, ironically, every T-shirt stall sells shirts that say, SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT.

But obviously no, they are not so different!

Last Saturday the community around the Justees workshop was thoroughly entertained as 50 visiting Australian teenagers came to visit the workshop.
The two buses parked a couple of blocks away as the roads get a little narrow in the immediate vicinity so the 50 Aussie teenagers, walked the rest of the way, giving them a great chance to see the community as well as a great opportunity to know what it is like to be watched! Dave did a great job of entertaining them all, presenting the story of Justees and selling 24 t-shirts although he did comment that it was very hot!