reading a bag
At an event promoting Fair Trade I was delighted to be given my goodies in this bag. It's made out of recycled Indian newspapers. The website tells me they are made by former street children. All the newspapers are collected by one man calling at homes asking for newspapers, sometimes therefore the bags feature completed crosswords!
The employment ads on the other side give me the impression Delhi is booming not least in call centres. One says that 'average English' is required.
Julia
Labels: newspaper
posted by LRC at
02:33
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DB adds: That’s nice. I have a smaller newspaper bag from Nepal somewhere. I can see the beginnings of a museum of literacy artefacts here :-).
And, as part of local literacies research, I made a list of the uses people made of old newspapers – covering windows when painting a room, drying boots, putting on kitchen floor when it’s been cleaned, starting a fire, and lots more… - It’s all perceived affordances!!
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28 November 2007 at 06:00
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