In the early spring of 2014, the Brightside team has found out that the factory producing the Solar Cool Cooler has been employing child laborers. Due to the factory being independent, we have had no influence over the way things are in these types of work environments and planned to cut all ties made with the factory. CNN, who graciously gave us this information in the first place has been notified and we have tried to communicate this through social media and other forms of communication. We have also attempted to persuade the factory board members to relieve all of the child employees for adults. It is also noted that we have provided all of those minors with money to establish themselves as young entrepreneurs like ourselves and we wish them well in their endeavors.
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Currently Brightside Solar Company has begun a wide-spread campaign to promote the horrors of child labor as of March of 2014. Brightside Solar would also like to apologize for this incident and promise to look deeper into the places where our products are made. If you own any of our products, we are incredibly sorry for the way that that product was made because the way the children were being treated was inhumane. If you and or anyone you know is unhappy with their product please contact us immediately so we can smooth over these problems. We are also very open to talk about this issue, so if you have any questions you can post them on our forums page or tweet us at @helpfromthesun_ . Thank you all for understanding this issue and we hope that most or all questions were answered. Have a super sunny day!
~COO, Hannah Janovsky |