Sting and his wife Trudie Stylar are currently on a philanthropic mission involving banana skin and elephant dung. Skins and dung are the materials used in a new bag being sold for the charity 'The Big Issue', which proceeds are used for international homeless relief.
Dubbed "The Bag Issue", sales of this bag will be used for Karm Marg – a home for street children based in the outskirts of Delhi.
Trudie Styler commented 'There's a synergy between the Bag Issue and the Big Issue. Both Big Issue vendors and the children at Karm Marg are working their way from the streets.'
'They want to make their own destiny and hold their head up. This gives them self esteem, helps foster communities and enables them to support their own lives,' she said.
The bags are made by women on low wages from banana skin fibers and elephant dung and will have a series of articles printed on them by The Big Issue.
'Poverty is a human rights abuse and Trudie has done wonderful work in highlighting this. I urge everyone to get behind the Bag Issue,' said John Bird ' co-founder of the Big Issue.