When you buy a fair trade product you know that you are making a difference. Your purchase may enable a mother to send her children to school or a village to build a well supplying clean water.

Fair trade is better for the environment. Fair trade products are made from sustainable sources or with recycled materials such as tin, juice bags, or cotton rags. Fair trade foods are grown in a way that reduces harm to the planet. For example, shade grown coffee maintains natural biodiversity and crops are grown organically, eliminating the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.

Lastly, fair trade keeps families together and promotes community by providing local employment, preventing migration to already overcrowded cities. Many fair trade foods are grown on family farms where several generations work together and fair trade crafts, of which 70% are made by women, are often made by family groups living in their homes.

Fair trade is growing!

The range of fair trade products is growing and more stores are offering fair trade goods. Today certified fair trade coffee, tea, chocolate, rice, sugar, bananas, and roses, are all available.
You can also find fair trade products for “everyday needs” such as clothing for men, women and children, cookware, kitchen and dining accessories, home décor, musical instruments, jewelry and so much more.

So enjoy buying fair trade, for everyday, for special days, for holidays, knowing that every purchase makes a difference to their lives and to yours!!