From today through sunday, Center for Global Impact (CGI) will host a trunk show at the State Fairgrounds. According to Grace Miller, co-vice president and junior, members of the club will be helping out with trunk shows depending on which day everyone is free.

“The volunteers will be helping to sell the products that the Cambodian women made, such as scarves, bags, etc. All the profits will go directly back to the women to help them raise a sustainable income to provide for their families,” Miller said.

The brand of products club members will sell is called byTavi. It started when a woman named Tavi needed to support her family when her husband died from AIDS. Despite her culture’s acceptance towards human trafficking, she did not want to resort to it. Instead she came to CGI asking for help, and requested a sewing machine and seamstress training according to the CGI website. A couple of years later, she began sewing and inspired other women in her community to sew. Together the women started the brand byTavi. The project helps women reach their full potential and make them leaders. Women who were former seamstresses now manage the project.

Miller said members are helping out with the trunk show because they “believe in helping to end the cycle of poverty in Asian countries, and also that no one should have to resort to sex trafficking in order to make a living.”

Club sponsor Diana LaRose said the club was started in order to spread awareness and stop female infanticide in India, and this project with CGI fits right in with that goal. “It is going right along with everything that the club is all about. It’s injustices to girls in particular,” she said.

CGI also sells the byTavi products in stores across Indiana. Some of the retail partners in Carmel include The District Exchange, Halo Salon, Capstone Bookstore at Northview Christian Church and Moxie Salon. The products can also be bought online on its website. In order to host a trunk show, a person should sign up on the website, and CGI will provide all the items needed.

The club had been looking into partnering with CGI since the beginning of the school year and it is one of the big projects the club is working on this year. Miller said she was finding ways to help out as it fits in with the club’s cause.

Miller said, “The trunk shows are a great opportunity for people to support an incredible program against trafficking by purchasing items handmade by the women in the byTavi program. The products are good quality, and 100 percent of the profits go directly back to the women.”