Saameer Athavale
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Saameer Athavale is from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Saameer is currently CEO at Shop for Change Fair Trade, located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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Shop for Change Fair Trade (www.shopforchange.in) is a path-breaking social enterprise established in January 2009 to create sustainable livelihoods for farmers, artisans and factory workers by enabling businesses and consumers to buy fair trade certified, eco-friendly products directly from source. Shop for Change has enabled large brands (e.g. Raymond - Color Plus, Anita Dongre), retailers (e.g. Shoppers Stop) & some of India’s topmost corporations like Aditya Birla group, L&T, Mariott, DHL, Thomas Cook, Deloitte, Axis Bank group to source cotton, food, jute and canvas products responsibly / sustainably. Shop for Change is run by a team of professionals (e.g. Chartered Accountant, Engineer) who have worked in leadership roles in the private sector. Shop for Change’s work has been incubated by large international development agencies like European Union, ICCO as well Indian donors like NABARD, Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Forbes Foundation. In order to scale up its work, a for-profit arm has been set up to buy and sell fair trade certified handmade products.