We are Steve & Paul, two Graphic Design Students from Sheffield, UK. After the devastating Earthquake in Haiti early in 2010, we decided we should do something to help, and so Haitees was born. We have contacted some of our favourite artists and designers and asked them to submit designs to be sold on the site. Our friends at mysoti.com print the tee-shirts, post them to you and all the profits go straight to the Red Cross.
We got a mention on the great t-shirt blog, hideyourarms.com last month, but somehow completely missed it at the time. Apologies to Andrew for not getting to say thanks for the great write-up sooner!
The post can be found here: http://hideyourarms.com/?s=haitees
Looks like we weren’t the only ones with the idea of ‘Haitees’. Good work Sadie-Mae!
Link: Borehamwood pupil raises money for Haiti earthquake victims…
So Haitees has been running for a few months now, and unfortunately we’ve had nowhere near as many sales as we had hoped. But just like the aid workers in Haiti, we’re still going. We’ve lowered the prices of our tee shirts on the Mysoti store for everyone, hopefully that might persuade more sales. It’s a shame to have to donate less per shirt, but if we can get more sales we’ll make a bigger donation over all.
The crisis in Haiti is far from over. Hurricane season has officially started and the people of Haiti are incredibly vulnerable. There are thousands of people still living in camps around the city, and severe weather will make things much worse than they already are. Right now the people of Haiti need your help as much as ever, so please please, help them out.
