Jan 1, 2011Bringing New Color to Artisans' Lives
Ramlal Khatri was a very talented artisan in India who had won prestigious
awards for his wood-block printing work, a handmade process in which patterns
are stamped on cotton using a wooden block. As part of an artisan community who
has been practicing this art for generations,...
more...
Jan 1, 2011Creative Ways to Improve Women's Lives
Ellen Dorsch, founder of Creative Women, Inc., remembers "I have always been guided by the values of equity value in my professional and personal life; when I started Creative Women, after working 40 years in the non-profit sector, I naturally embrace[d] equity as the core value of this business."
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Jan 1, 2011Dignity in the Cards
Cards from Africa (CfA) , based in Kigali, Rwanda, manufactures beautiful hand-crafted greeting cards and other paper products for all occasions.
CfA seeks to break the cycle of poverty for orphaned youth by providing stable employment, fair wages, and job training through a nurturing,...
more...
Jan 1, 2011Another story of The Three Little Pigs
You may have heard of the three little pigs, but you have never seen anything like these.
These pigs live down a long dusty road in Nicaragua, are made from local clay into old fashion piggy banks, and changed the life of Marta and her sister.
Marta and her sister live alone in a...
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Jan 1, 2011New Opportunities for Qalandar Communities
New opportunities for qalandar
communities
Amid beating drums and the shrill
screech of bagpipes, a bear is dragged onto the center of the arena. The crowd,
gathered for the wrestling match, cheers loudly as the bear is tied with a long rope
to a peg. Their cheering reaches a...
more...
Jan 1, 2011Hope and Preservation
Hope and Preservation
With more than ten years working in relief and
development for several international non-governmental organizations, Beth Sethi
and Tammy Teske had seen the incredible benefits to families when poor women
are economically empowered. The pair met while...
more...
Jan 1, 2011Weaving Communities Together
The Community Friendly Movement (CFM) , a fair trade organiszation based in New Delhi, India, aims to both create wealth for artisan communities and provide quality products to customers at competitive prices. They work directly with communities at the bottom of the pyramid to reduce the number...
more...
Jan 1, 2011Pieces of Peace
"I became involved in fair trade from my parents," Crystal Waters, founder and owner of Shanti Boutique says. The Boutique is a Fair Trade company dedicated to bringing shanti - the ancient Sanskrit word meaning peace - through yoga, chakra, and sacred symbol jewelry.
After traveling...
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Jan 1, 2011Taking matters into their own hands
In the 1990s, as the value of handcraft plummeted in a newly globalized market, local producer communities in Tecalpulco, Mexico were devastated. So, in 1991, the women of eight villages in Mexico joined together to form Artesanas Campesinas (ARTCAMP) and meet their own needs.
more...
Jan 1, 2011Barefoot Solar Engineers Brighten Lives
The Barefoot College began in 1972 in the small village of Tilonia in rural Rajasthan, India with the conviction that solutions to rural problems lay within the community. The College works to improve the lives of the rural poor by addressing basic needs for water, electricity, housing, health,...
more...
Jan 1, 2011Always Sunny in Honduras
In 2003, a unique partnership between local Siempre Unidos clinics and a US-based non-profit formed to treat people suffering from AIDS in Honduras. They provided access to health care, medicine, and other services to the local communities. Yet, within a few months, they realized that these...
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Jan 1, 2011Coffee's David and Goliath Story
When the Ecological Farmers of the Sierra Madres of Chiapas (CESMACH) found an important buyer to purchase their coffee, they were elated. Soon after, the buyer began to overstep its bounds and impose practices the co-operative felt undermined their development efforts. So, CESMACH got organized.
more...
Jan 1, 2011The Road to Fair Trade: An Activist's Journey
The journey to fair trade brought Bernadette Blais back to her beginnings as an activist and carried the residents of Hawkesbury, ON along with her.
more...
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Ramlal Khatri was a very talented artisan in India who had won prestigious awards for his wood-block printing work, a handmade process in which patterns are stamped on cotton using a wooden block. As part of an artisan community who has been practicing this art for generations,... more...
Ellen Dorsch, founder of Creative Women, Inc., remembers "I have always been guided by the values of equity value in my professional and personal life; when I started Creative Women, after working 40 years in the non-profit sector, I naturally embrace[d] equity as the core value of this business." more...
Cards from Africa (CfA) , based in Kigali, Rwanda, manufactures beautiful hand-crafted greeting cards and other paper products for all occasions. CfA seeks to break the cycle of poverty for orphaned youth by providing stable employment, fair wages, and job training through a nurturing,... more...
You may have heard of the three little pigs, but you have never seen anything like these. These pigs live down a long dusty road in Nicaragua, are made from local clay into old fashion piggy banks, and changed the life of Marta and her sister. Marta and her sister live alone in a... more...
New opportunities for qalandar communities Amid beating drums and the shrill screech of bagpipes, a bear is dragged onto the center of the arena. The crowd, gathered for the wrestling match, cheers loudly as the bear is tied with a long rope to a peg. Their cheering reaches a... more...
Hope and Preservation With more than ten years working in relief and development for several international non-governmental organizations, Beth Sethi and Tammy Teske had seen the incredible benefits to families when poor women are economically empowered. The pair met while... more...
The Community Friendly Movement (CFM) , a fair trade organiszation based in New Delhi, India, aims to both create wealth for artisan communities and provide quality products to customers at competitive prices. They work directly with communities at the bottom of the pyramid to reduce the number... more...
"I became involved in fair trade from my parents," Crystal Waters, founder and owner of Shanti Boutique says. The Boutique is a Fair Trade company dedicated to bringing shanti - the ancient Sanskrit word meaning peace - through yoga, chakra, and sacred symbol jewelry. After traveling... more...
In the 1990s, as the value of handcraft plummeted in a newly globalized market, local producer communities in Tecalpulco, Mexico were devastated. So, in 1991, the women of eight villages in Mexico joined together to form Artesanas Campesinas (ARTCAMP) and meet their own needs. more...
The Barefoot College began in 1972 in the small village of Tilonia in rural Rajasthan, India with the conviction that solutions to rural problems lay within the community. The College works to improve the lives of the rural poor by addressing basic needs for water, electricity, housing, health,... more...
When the Ecological Farmers of the Sierra Madres of Chiapas (CESMACH) found an important buyer to purchase their coffee, they were elated. Soon after, the buyer began to overstep its bounds and impose practices the co-operative felt undermined their development efforts. So, CESMACH got organized. more...
The journey to fair trade brought Bernadette Blais back to her beginnings as an activist and carried the residents of Hawkesbury, ON along with her. more...
