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Creating economic opportunities for the poor is a critical element in ending hunger. Fair trade cuts out intermediary buyers and guarantees small producers prices that exceed their production costs. Purchase items that benefit developing countries - how and where you spend your money matters!
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
- Global Exchange
Global Exchange, founded in 1988, is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Visit Global Exchange's online Fair Trade store. All products meet the Fair Trade criteria, ensuring an equitable and fair partnership between marketers in North America and producers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and other parts of the world.
store.gxonlinestore.org
www.globalexchange.org
- Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
Lutheran World Relief works with partners in 50 countries to help people grow food, improve health, strengthen communities, end conflict, build livelihoods and recover from disasters. Lutheran World Relief seeks lasting solutions to poverty and injustice and in doing so, compels U.S. Lutherans to put their faith into action. Host an LWR Fair Trade Fair in your parish or community with fairly traded handcrafts from around the world. Every sale benefits the artisans who create these products.
Lutheran World Relief > Fair Trade > LWR Handcraft Project > LWR Fair Trade Fair
www.lwr.org/handcraft/fairtradefair.asp
- Make Trade Fair
Oxfam America is a Boston-based international development and relief agency and an affiliate of Oxfam International. Working with local partners, Oxfam delivers development programs and emergency relief services, and campaigns for change in global practices and policies that keep people in poverty. Sign Oxfam's "Big Noise" petition to call for decision-makers to make trade fair.
www.maketradefair.com
- Oxfam America
Oxfam America is a Boston-based international development and relief agency and an affiliate of Oxfam International. Working with local partners, Oxfam delivers development programs and emergency relief services, and campaigns for change in global practices and policies that keep people in poverty. Working with partners and allies around the world, Oxfam America is calling on consumers to ask their local supermarkets to stock Fair Trade CertifiedT products, and this campaign focuses on coffee. Spread the word, consult Oxfam's action guide to bring Fair Trade to your community, e-mail your supermarket, meet coffee farmers, and buy fair trade certified products.
Oxfam America > What You Can Do > Act Now > Campaign Action > Fair Trade Coffee
www.oxfamamerica.org/whatyoucando/act_now/campaign_action/coffee
- TRANSFAIR USA
TransFair USA, a nonprofit organization, is one of nineteen members of Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. TransFair USA audits transactions between US companies offering Fair Trade CertifiedT products and the international suppliers from whom they source, in order to guarantee that the farmers and farm workers behind Fair Trade Certified goods were paid a fair, above-market price. Consult TransFair USA for essential information about influencing the marketplace through thoughtful consumption.
www.transfairusa.org
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