Global Poverty
Poverty is the root of the greatest evils in the world. Our partners are providing sustainable routes out of poverty for some of the world’s poorest people. Their tireless work allows us in America to buy things we need, while providing desperately needed income to those in need.
AITA
AITA is a fair trade business committed to building long term relationships with many artist communities who live and work in the beautiful land of the Zulus. They help keep long-standing families and communities together through the preservation of traditional art forms. The name “AITA” is township slang from the New South Africa; it’s a cheerful greeting between friends and strangers alike.
Alaffia
Alaffia BodyCare products use indigenous African natural resources that are culturally, economically and ecologically sustainable. The Fair Trade Shea Butter in each Alaffia product is handcrafted in Togo, West Africa, and serves to empower and enrich the Togolese community.
Alter Eco
Alter Eco are a team of fair trade visionaries and food-loving explorers on a mission to connect you to fair trade farmers and their honest foods. The taste is sweet justice.
Artisans Lane
Artisans Lane cards are handmade in Istanbul, Turkey. In this city, where Europe and Asia collide, the gap between the upper and lower classes seems to widen almost daily. Artisans lane exists to bring some stability and dignity to the lives of Istanbul’s under-resourced women.
ASHA Handicrafts Association
ASHA exists to promote the social and economic welfare of its artisans in India.
Canaan Fair Trade
Canaan Fair Trade uses the Fair Trade concept to empower marginalized Palestinian rural communities caught in conflict so they can sustain their livelihoods and culture. The farmers producing the olives are given the stable income they deserve in an area rocked by instability.
Choice Teas
Our Fair Trade Certified organic teas meet the highest standards of quality and social responsibility. Your tea-drinking habit directly benefits the lives of tea estate workers. (Plus they taste pretty amazing too).
Comite Artisanal Hatien
Comite Artisanal Hatien (or Haitian Committee of Artisans) work in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. CAH organizes the artisans, and provides them with marketing expertise, education and business classes, fair wages, advance payment, and health assistance.
Divine Chocolate
Divine Chocolate is the first farmer-owned chocolate company in the world. They serve as a stark contrast to the slavery and injustice that dominate most of the world’s chocolate production. The cocoa beans that make up this chocolate are fairly traded, sustainably farmed, and irresistibly tasty.
Fair Trade Artisans
Trade as One connects Americans with hardworking women and men all over the world, who use their own ingenuity and work ethic to pull themselves out of poverty.
Fair Trade Sports
Fair Trade Sports partners sewers and stitchers in Pakistan to produce high-quality fair Trade sports balls. In an industry dominated by sweatshop labor and unjust working conditions, they stand out as a company dedicated to treating people fairly.
Green Sahara Gifts
At Green Sahara Gifts, we don’t want to offer the world more stuff. We want to offer a story: the hope of a fair and regular paycheck, trees being planted for young Moroccans to enjoy when they grow up, and cultural bridges being built for Moroccan artisans to show their skill in many homes and workplaces in the West.
HAE Now
HAE NOW is a producer of organic, fair trade 100% cotton clothing. It is committed to ethics and social responsibility, to human rights, and to preventing environmental degradation and animal exploitation. They assist struggling farmers by helping them climb out of debt and poverty. Profits are reinvested in social and community development.
Handmade Expressions
Handmade Expressions believe that economic-sustainability is key to the basic development of a community. They work with over 500 artisans across India and help to bring their products to market in the West, and in so doing help to provide a future for some of the poorest people in India.
Kamibashi
Kamibashi works with artists in Asia to create greeting cards, key chains, bags and other products that incorporate the artists’ unique styles. Kamibashi operates under fair trade practices to create sustainable products of superior quality.
La Vida Verde
La Chamba cookware is handmade out of black micacious clay in Columbia. Fair Trade artisans sculpt each piece, polish it with river rocks, and then wood fire it to preserve the shape. They use no toxins, glaze, or lead. Your purchase allows these Columbian artists to support their families and preserve their traditions…
Noah’s Ark International
Noah’s Ark treats artisans with honesty and integrity, in contrast to the oppression and intimidation faced by most metal craftsmen in India.
North Country Fair Trade
The company was established by and for garment workers forced out of their jobs after standing up for their rights in maquiladoras owned by large U.S. apparel corporations. They had the audacity to demand fair working conditions. Your purchase helps make it happen.
Thanksgiving Coffee
In 2003, Ugandan farmer JJ Keki walked door-to-door asking his Muslim, Christian, and Jewish neighbors to leave behind a history of conflict, and unite to face their struggle against poverty caused by low coffee prices. The farmers came together, and founded a cooperative to build peace and prosperity in their community.
Unique Batik
Unique Batik works with craftswomen in Guatemalan and Ghanian villages to create beautiful bags and jewelry out of materials native to the area. These eco-friendly and unique products give fair and dignified employment to impoverished women.
Venture Imports
A powerful symbol of hope arising from despair, the unique bullet crosses are hand crafted in Liberia by Jonathan Worlobah, a survivor of that country’s recent civil wars.
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