Everyone’s experienced this: You’re shopping in a drugstore, and you have everything on your list except for one thing.
You approach the aisle full of feminine hygiene products and diapers. You inconspicuously glance behind your shoulder, then frantically grab for a package of condoms and put it quickly in your shopping basket, hidden under that bag of chips.
Phew. Nobody saw anything, right? At the register, you subtly drape the bag of chips over the bright red box of condoms and then become the picture of innocence as the cashier glides the two items over the barcode scanner.
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Under this initiative, 50 percent of all profits would go toward social projects, such as sex education and awareness for adolescents. What’s more, the rubber farmers would be better paid. Zeiler explained that he and his team want to fly to Malaysia regularly to examine working conditions on the plantations.
With the total from the crowdfunding project, a cooperative of scientists would be founded to promote sustainable cultivation of rubber and to enforce standards worldwide.
This post originally appeared on HuffPost Germany and was translated into English.
