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This is the link for my journey and picture ⬆️

Tracking My Basketball Shoe 

I knew I wanted to track a basketball shoe since all I mostly do is hoop.  So I started off with my Harden Volume 5 basketball shoe and I just went to the Adidas website. I went to the California Transparency in Supply Chain Act and it said the website was down but it had other links so I clicked on the link that said gameplan a. It then took me to a podcast link and I listened to the podcast on this lady ‘Angela Mantilla. She is the Manager of Footprint Analytics. She explains how her scientific thinking has helped drive difficult decision-making and why when it comes to sustainability it’s better to start simple. But ultimately she didn’t go into too much detail about the workers, so I switched over to Nike because I have many Nike shoes like Durants and Kyriesd. So I went to the Nike website and scrolled down to Sustainability and went to CA Supply Chains Act. It took me to “NIKE, INC. STATEMENT ON FORCED LABOR, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MODERN SLAVERY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2021”. I then scrolled through the document and went to Nike Manufacturing Map and it took me to this really useful site where it tells you where all Nike Products are made. So I filtered it to Nike, Footwear, and Finished Goods. I then went to Choose a Location and I decided to do India. I told me it was 5 Factories and 29,916 workers and 70 .8% are female and the average age is 30. So after that, I exported the data and look up 2 of the 5 factories. The first one was Fairway Enterprises and I tried to get in touch with them I texted them through this website. His name was Mr. Raja but he never got back to me. But I looked at the reviews on the places and I got some input and pictures on the place. kavinkumar ks said, “This company vrey vrey dangerous.” He also provided pictures of the building. Dass Kuppusamy said, “The Worst behavior, treat like animals”. And there were many more like this. I could have easily called one of these people and asked them about the place they worked at but my mom said it’s too expensive to call outside of the USA. This project made me realize how fortunate I am that when I grow up in America I won’t have to be treated like an animal while working.