The Match Factory

The original Match Factory: “In 1891 The Salvation Army opened its own match factory on Lamprell Street, in Old Ford, London, England, in answer to the pressing social problem of necrosis….” Read more.

theRubicon Match Factory: “… a list of the days inaugurated by agencies such as the United Nations, that are concerned primarily with matters of social justice or human rights….” Read more.

Read the current Match Factory review: November-December 2008

(For previous quarterly reviews, click here)

The Match Factory 2008 Calendar:

February
25 - 09 March | Fair Trade fortnight

March
1-30 | Veggie Month
2 | National Childrens Day (New Zealand)
8 | International Women’s Day
20 | Earth Day
21 | World Poetry Day
21 | International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
22 | World Water Day

April
4 | Refugee Rights Day (Canada)
7 | World Health Day
21-27 | Global Campaign for Education Week
21-27 | Turn off TV week

May
3 | World Press Freedom Day
10 | World Fair Trade Day
15 | International Day of Families
19-25 | National Vegetarian Week
21 | World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

June
1 | International Children’s Day
4 | International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 | World Environment Day
12 | World Day Against Child Labour
14-22 | National Bike Week
20 | World Refugee Day
26 | International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

July
7 | International Day of Co-operatives
7-9 | G8 Summit, Japan
11 | World Population Day

August
1-7 | World Breast Feeding Week
9 | International Day for the World’s Indigenous people
12 | International Youth Day
23 | International Day for the remembrance of the Slave trade and its abolition

September
12 | International Literacy Day
21 | International Day of Peace
22 | World Car Free Day

October
2 | International Day of Non Violence
5 | World Teachers’ Day
6 | World Habitat Day
8 | International Day for Disaster Reduction
9 | World Sight Day
16 | World Food Day
17 | International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

November
6 | International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
19 | World Toilet Day
20 | Universal Children’s Day
22 | Buy Nothing Day
25 | International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

December
1 | World AIDS Day
2 | International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
5 | International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
10 | Human Rights Day
18 | International Migrants Day