Fair Trade means that our spending here in America can give people on the other side of the world a chance to lift themselves out of poverty. The women and men making these products were faced with extreme poverty and its consequences. Their children faced a lack of education and a need to work at best, and disease at worst. Clean water was often a luxury, and access to health care was often impossible.
But Fair Trade has given them a way out. The consequences of choices made here in the West continue to ripple into cities, villages, and homes that most of us will never see. These women and men are given their rights: fair wages, clean and safe working conditions, access to clean water,health and education opportunities, and their kids in schools. Our choices here in America mean justice for many who would have never experienced it otherwise. In Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, the Middle East, and Latin America, our spending is changing lives.
All because people in America continue to divert their spending away from big-box stores and shopping malls, and into channels that directly benefit the global poor. That’s what it means to Trade as One. For more information about the item you’ve purchased, email us at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and we’ll get you what you need.
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