What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade is the principle whereby farmers or artisans are fairly compensated for the products they produce. By purchasing fair trade items, you help the future look brighter for many people.
Why Fair Trade?
- Fair Trade means no sweat shops or slave labor involved
- Fair Trade allows schools and clinics to be built
- Fair Trade means environmentally sustainable farming practices
- Fair Trade allows women to be empowered by learning a skill
- Fair Trade builds strong communities by ensuring that more money makes its way back into the communities that grew the crop or made the gift item