Fair Trade in Your Home

You can easily incorporate fair trade products into your home-life.

 Cook With Fair Trade Ingredients

• Alter Eco USA Recipes - Recipes for rice, olive oil, and other sweet and savory dishes - You can also contribute to their Community Cookbook!
  
• Cafe Campesino's Recipe of the Month - Fair trade treats your family will enjoy.
• Equal Exchange Recipes - Drinks and desserts with your favorite fair trade ingredients.
• Global Exchange's Let Your S'Mores Make a Statement campaign - Make S'mores with Fair Trade chocolate and send a message to the cocoa industry that you want an end to poverty and abusive child labor in the industry
  
• Handmade Expressions' Salvadoran Empanadas - A traditional Salvadoran dish with Fair Trade ingredients
  
• Higher Grounds Recipes - Spice up your fair trade coffee with these great ideas
• Peace Coffee Recipes - Delicious fair trade coffee-based treats
• SERRV International's Divine Cookbook - 100 recipes that celebrate Divine Chocolate
• Fair Trade Cookbook - Ideas from the Fair Trade Foundation in the UK (note: not all ingredients will be available fair trade in North America)
• Just Desserts: 50 sweet surprises with Fair Trade ingredients, by Ralf Kabelitz, New Internationalist Fair Trade Cookbooks. 2003
• Cooking with Coffee: 60 recipes using Fair Trade Coffee, by Lucas Rosenblatt, Judith Meyer, and Edith Beckmann, New Internationalist Fair Trade Cookbooks. 2003

Contribute to Fair Trade Organizations

• Investing in or donating to Fair Trade organizations will enable their work to continue for years to come. Learn more!
  

Host a Home Party

FTF members make it easy to bring fair trade products to an informal house party or as a fair trade home party consultant:

• Bead for Life Party - Learn about the women in Uganda who make B4L�s products, have fun trying on the jewelry, and "eradicate poverty one bead at a time."
• A Better Footprint - Fair Trade Fiestas are a great way to raise awareness, have fun, travel the world, and earn a percentage of the sales all from your own living room. Available in IL, MI, NJ, WI, and other locations.
• Bridge for Africa House Party - Bring friends together for an evening of great discussion on Africa and view, purchase, and learn about their quality handmade African products.
• Cards from Africa - Guests can learn about global poverty, the history of Rwanda, and the story behind Cards from Africa. And they can walk away with a beautiful, handmade cards that make a difference..
• A Fair World Designs Party - Fair World Designs will come to your place of choice and offer shopping from a rainbow of handbags and jewelry. Hostesses earn 10% of the total Party sales.
• Flavours of Life - To celebrate differences and explore other cultures, Flavours of Life brings fair trade items from their store to your home. Currently only available in the New London, CT area
• Global Fayre - Host a Global Fayre Party in your home or in the Springfield, MO store and earn at least 10% of the gross revenues. No need to purchase inventory in advance and materials provided. 1% of the gross revenues go to the Global Fayre Fund
  
• Inca Kids - At home, in the office, at school or church, an Inca Kids party brings Peru to you
  
• Jolica Home Parties - Enjoy a journey to Chile, Indonesia, Thailand, and other exotic places to admire beautiful jewelry and accessories handcrafted by skilled artisans. The pride taken in creating these works of art is evident in the quality and unique designs.
• Mandy's Purses -  Connect with artisans in Vietnam by bringing unique, quality handbags, ladies jackets, scarves and girls dresses to your home.Currently only available in CT.
  
• Pacha World Home Parties - Bring awareness to your community and sell beautiful crafts by artists of the world, while generating income and helping others at the same time. Consultants Receive a Fair Trade Suitcase of samples, educational materials, and ordering information.
• Pachacuti - Beautiful jewelry to support women across the globe and their families. Currently only available in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania
  
• Rwanda Basket Company - Introduce your family, friends and coworkers to beautiful handmade Rwandan baskets while at the same time earning exclusive hostess rewards for yourself.
• Trade as One Gatherings - Hosts receive a DVD about Trade as One and the people behind the products, an ideas manual, product catalog, forms, and sample product kits available for purchase.
• World Village Marketplace Parties - Sell great fair trade products, raise money for orphans in Africa, educate people about fair trade, and provide an outlet for people in developing countries  - all by bringing World Village Fair Trade Marketplace goods to your friends. Available only in the Hampton Bays, NY area.
• WorldCrafts - Spend quality time with friends, raise awareness of a wonderful cause, and help lift people out of poverty all at the same time.