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 build long term relationships with many suffering 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, utilizing recycled objects, namely telephone wire.
Alaffia
Alaffia body care 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 from around the globe. The taste is sweet justice.
Andes Gifts
Andes Gifts provides steady work to skilled women knitters in underdeveloped and impoverished rural communities in Peru and Bolivia. Over 60 women’s knitting groups creatively apply traditional Andean knitting techniques to produce attractive and fun products.
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, meaning “hope” in Sanskrit, has brought just that to many artisans in India for over thirty years, promoting their social and economic welfare.
Bawa la Tumaini
Bawa la Tumaini (“Wing of Hope”) is a Kenyan fair trade company working with marginalized handicraft producers, many of whom live in the large slums around Nairobi.
Bombolulu Workshops
Based in Mombasa, Kenya, Bombolulu Workshops provides physically disabled people with vocational training and meaningful employment, allowing them to combat poverty through the creation and trading of handicrafts. Their products represent social and economic rehabilitation and empowerment for people with disabilities.
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.
Casa de la Mujer Artesana
Casa de la Mujer Artesana (The House of Women Artisans) produces beautiful hand-knitted, often alpaca, items created by women in rural Peru. It is committed to improving and empowering the lives of disadvantaged women.
Choice Teas
Choice Organic Teas meet the highest standards of quality and social responsibility, producing tea without harming the environment, while improving the lives of tea estate workers across the world, including India and Sri Lanka. Plus, their tea is delicious!
Divine Chocolate
Divine Chocolate, based in Ghana, 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 Food Producers
At Trade as One, we love bringing you a wide selection of Fair Trade foods. We have increased our range of coffee, chocolate, tea, rice, quinoa and olive oil to include honey, dried fruit, and a variety of sugar and spices.
Fair Trade Sports
Since 2006, Fair Trade Sports has partnered 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.
Good & Fair Clothing
Good & Fair Clothing is dedicated to using organic and fair trade materials. They ensure fair wages for cotton farmers and garment workers internationally as well as providing resources for those fighting to get out of poverty in their own community.
Green Sahara Gifts
Green Sahara Gifts offers wood products and furnishings created in Morocco that are unique, handcrafted, and sustainable.
HAE Now
HAE NOW produces 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 in India 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.
Light Gives Heat
Light Gives Heat empowers poor Ugandan women to pursue creative endeavors and achieve economic sustainability whilst creating strongly African products with Western appeal.
Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts
Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts is an income generating and educational project for poor and disadvantaged women, which provides employment and training, and promotes self-reliance amongst disadvantaged families and ethnic minorities in Southern Vietnam.
Marigold Fair Trade
Since 2004, Marigold has been working with over 200 disadvantaged women in the slums of Mumbai, where they create vibrant fabrics of exceptional beauty, using organic cotton, vegetable dyes, hand-block printing and embroidery on fabrics of unique texture, design and color.
Mata Traders
Mata Traders’ mission since 2006 has been to work with organizations that educate, employ, and empower women living at the poverty level in India and Nepal. This enables them to thrive in a sphere of meaningful work and offers them equality in the workplace.
Noahs Ark International
Noah’s Ark works with artisans in India, treating them with honesty and integrity, in contrast to the oppression and intimidation faced by most metal craftsmen in India.
North Country Fair Trade
North Country Fair Trade is committed to improving wages and labor conditions for production workers in Latin America by expanding the market in the United States for basic goods produced by fair trade production groups in Latin America.
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
Venture imports produces the unique bullet crosses, handcrafted in Liberia by Jonathan Worlobah, a survivor of that country’s recent civil wars, a powerful symbol of hope arising from despair.
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