Muttonhead is a unisex sportswear brand that believes in practicing fair trade and manufactures all garments in Toronto, Canada.
Inspired by a time when garments were valued for their functionality, Muttonhead combines classic shapes with season-less styles.
www.muttonheadcollective.com
You can follow their journey cycling across Canada on both their tumblr and facebook page. These girls are raising money to donate to underprivileged children so they too can participate in extracurricular sports.
Please come show your support by cycling with them as they ride through your town, or just come out and cheer them on. Because let’s be honest, it is a pretty serious achievement to cycle across one of the physically largest countries in the world!
We just stumbled across some Instagram pic’s from the ‘Toast to the Coast’ event that took place in Vancouver. At this year’s annual event, the Vancouver Aquarium played host to a night of food, wine, music and shopping. We donated two pieces from the Muttonhead fall/winter 2011 collection to the event. In one night they raised $350,000 for the sea creatures!
Check out des mutts (our creative team) hiding behind the donation jar!
odysseyforopportunity: A couple members of the OFO team headed to the ‘Camping out on Crawford’ pop up shop a few weekends ago. Our new goal is to fill the jar!
WHY: All money raised will go to ‘Grounds for Health’ an organization committed to working with women in the coffee producing communities of Mexico, Nicaragua and Tanzania. These funds will be put towards helping spread cervical cancer awareness, as well as providing screening and prevention procedures. Grounds for Health’s award winning work is not only saving the lives of hundreds of women every year (from a prevalent yet easy to detect/treat) form of cancer, but it is also helping to reshape the way gender equality is looked upon in these communities.
Last year they raised almost $8,000 so make sure you swing by and bid (lots of $$$) on the Muttonhead cup! Oh and if all that doesn’t bring you out of your cozy little homes in mid December then at least come for the booze, tunes and pay-what-you-can beans from Reunion Island Coffee.
Wehaw are partnering up with First Drop Coffee to bring all yous Americano’s and more at the POP POP SHOPPE! Free!
First Drop Canada is dedicated to improving the lives of coffee farmers and their families, by way of providing healthcare, an increased focus on education and social equality, within the global coffee community. Our aim is to raise money for organizations and charitable groups such as: Coffee Kids, Grounds for Health, the Café Femenino Foundation, Water for All Doctors Without Borders and any other worth causes, that work on the ground in the farming communities of developing countries around the world.
Of particular importance to First Drop Canada, is the well-being and advancement of both the women and children of coffee communities. In accordance with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, specifically those pertaining to: UNIVERSAL EDUCATION, GENDER EQUALITY, CHILD HEALTH AND MATERNAL HEALTH, empowering women and children in the third world is clearly to be the main goal for those attempting to effect positive change and create more balanced social and political systems globally.
