Heaven’s Attic: Shop to Free those Trapped in Slavery!

Heaven's Attic is an online shop selling unique gifts, accessories, jewellery, funky rings, bags, aroma products, home, interior and inspirational gifts. They are a social enterprise fighting the injustice of human trafficking. Your purchase of the products on this site helps to support charities.

Heaven’s Attic passionately believes that, by making right choices, we can make a real difference in our world and add value to others. Where possible, they aim to source products from disadvantaged communities around the globe. This is an area of their business that intend to develop further as they continue to grow.

They partner with a few key charities that are fighting against human trafficking, rescuing girls from the sex trade and lobbying to change legislation. You can now choose where you would prefer your purchase's contribution to be donated to. 12% of every online sale (excluding P&P) is given away - that is the 1st thing they do!

Here is a list of Heaven’s Attic’s Partners and their associated purchase codes. Enter your preferred charity's code on your Shopping Bag page before you proceed to Check Out:

•               The A21 Campaign- A21

•               unseen(uk) in Bristol - UN03

•               STOP THE TRAFFIK - STT07

•               The Salvation Army - SAID06

The main charity partner is The A21 Campaign (this is also my charity/organisation of choice), so if you do not use a Charity Code, that is where 12% of your sale will go. The A21 Campaign is comprised of individuals, organisations, government officials and people like you and me that are committed to abolishing injustice in the 21st Century. Their goal is to raise awareness, take legal action and offer rehabilitation services to rescued victims of human trafficking in order to fight this injustice from a comprehensive approach.

Shop online for:

·      Jewellery

·      Accessories

·      Interior decorations

·      Gifts for girls

·      The Aroma Range (smellies/toiletries)

·      Decorations and other festive items in time for Christmas

Like Heaven’s Attic on facebook or follow them on twitter (@HeavensAttic) to stay updated.

Let this online store be an inspiration and a challenge to you to do what you can: you can’t do everything, but you can do something to make a difference. Now, find that thing and be the change you wish to see in the world!

Blessings!

Ronell x

P.S. remember The Big Give Christmas Challenge starting today and ending 8^th December!

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” {Apple Inc.}

iCancer: People before profit. Let's crowdfund the anti-cancer virus that could save thousands

iCancer represents a team of guerrilla fundraisers who have launched a global campaign to fund research into a potential treatment for cancer (the kind that killed Steve Jobs). To find out more about the campaign, watch the campaign video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7W-52AwmH4 and read about iCancer below (information from http://icancer.org.uk/).

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The potential therapy, a cancer-busting virus, which if successfully developed could significantly extend the lives of patients with the same cancer as  Steve Jobs, is currently sitting in a freezer in Sweden – but it can’t be tested for lack of just £2million.

Without the money, the research will cease and the virus will be thrown away, placing in jeopardy a therapy that could significantly extend the lives of thousands of NET cancer sufferers.

We’ve put this campaign together in a little over a week. We have no money behind us and everybody is volunteering their time for free. So there is no fancy website, now motivational wristband and no rock concert.

It’s just us, the scientists, the virus and you.

The campaign is led by author Alexander Masters who wrote the bestseller Stuart: A Life Backwards and Dominic Nutt, who has the same cancer as Steve Jobs. Masters took up the campaign when his close friend Dido Davies was diagnosed with the incurable cancer, known as a neuroendocrine tumour, or NET.

NETs are cancers of the neuroendocrine system which incorporate glands that produce insulin, adrenalin and the ‘happy hormone’ serotonin. They can appear all over the body. NETs are silent killers. Most don’t have any symptoms – until the cancer is critically advanced.

But there is a new potential treatment for NETs – a cancer which is on the increase – but big business won’t stump up the £2million needed to fund the first stage of trials, because at this early stage there is no money to be made. The Swedish research team, led by Prof Magnus Essand, is so keen to collaborate and share his findings, he published his research. But now it is out in the public domain it can’t be protected by a patent and make a profit.

But we want to put people before profit and bring this potential therapy to people.

Fellow iCancer campaigner and social media expert Liz Scarff said: “We are appealing direct to the people. We are mavericks taking this to our Twitter communities across the world. We are cutting out the middlemen and the

“Steve Jobs would not have given up. He would have found a way round the problem. That’s what we’re doing. As Steve Jobs said: ‘Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…that’s what matters to me.’

There has been a huge and unexplained increase in the incidence of NET cancers in recent years, of up to 500 per cent, according to some research papers. In the case of Steve Jobs it was reported that he died of pancreatic cancer – although in fact he had a NET tumour on his pancreas.

The virus’ creator, Prof Magnus Essand of Uppsala University, says the £2million  will bring the virus to the point where a big pharmaceuticals company can take it over, test it, patent it, bring it to full-scale development and make a profit.

“The virus may have a similar relationship with a NET patient as drugs have with diabetics or patients with heart disease. Insulin doesn’t cure diabetes, but it manages it so that a diabetic doesn’t die from lack of insulin. Cancer, too, is becoming a chronic disease, which, even when incurable, can be controlled for long periods of time. If we get this right, virus treatments may have huge

For more information on NETs and help and support please visit the NET Patient Foundation.

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To support the campaign, follow @iCancer on Twitter and tweet details about the campaign using #iCancer. You can donate  from £2 using links to the Indiegogo site, the Twitter feed, the Facebook page and YouTube.

Please give generously! Just think, £2 is basically a cup of coffee! If a million people gave just £2 each, that’s it!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.” {Proverbs 3:27}