Hello Rewind lets you use an old t-shirt to create a protective sleeve for your laptop, iPad, Kindle, etc. The cost is $49, which seems steep, but if you buy one of these sleeves you’ll also be supporting a good cause. The company trains and employs women that were brought to New York through sex trafficking. According to a company blog post:
We’re working with the women to train them in the skills that will help right now — English, sewing, and basic business skills. The training programs are free in conjunction with the services Restore NYC already provides them. We do training in the same location we sew the sleeves on the same machines we bought. We tell them about Hello Rewind. We tell them again about Hello Rewind. We show them the sleeves and tell them how much they can make for each sleeve. It’s not as much as they can make working at the brothel, but it’s still more than what minimum wage or welfare could ever hope to provide them, and more than they could earn elsewhere.
I hope some of you consider getting a Hello Rewind laptop sleeve. You’d have an awesome one-of-a-kind product and the satisfaction of aiding someone in a difficult situation.
wow! good link rpad. I have no idea what to make my laptop sleeve of out now. i might have to get more than one.
@tokz_21 I have a vision of a Blue Lantern laptop sleeve. It seems appropriate for what Hello Rewind is trying to do too.
@rpad
nice! Do they have shirts for the other color spectrums???
@tokz_21 Indeed they do. I'm surprised you haven't seen them at the comic book stores.
@rpad
I haven't, the one i regularly go to doesn't carry any size but XXL every time i am tempted to buy one. There's another one i go to that's not as popular as my main one and they don't sell any shirts. They hardly have comics in that store, i think it stays in business because of the pokemon, magic, and yugi-oh leagues. Oh man, i went in for Free Comic Book day and i was like the only schmoe getting comics. Everyone was buying pokemon cards! I felt out of place.
I have an old Godfather shirt that says "Just Say Ho!"…. But I somehow feel it would be inappropriate.
@n8r
wow, if youre having doubts about that one then maybe i should re-consider sending in my carlito shirt thats says." do you spit or swallow?"