Anne-Marie Berger of Living St. Louis examined Fair Trade and its increasing in popularity.
Fair trade is a means of providing adequate wages to the individuals that make many of the products that we all use everyday.
This video tells the story of Dr. Wilman Ortega, who is a third generation coffee farmer from Guatemala who founded Beans for Hope where a portion of coffee sales go to schools in his home country.
Coffee isn't the only seasonal, fair-trade foodstuff.
Nor is refusal to countenance slavery inevitably a part of choosing fair-trade products over others.
Import Peace is non-profit organization that sells high-quality, fair-trade, USDA organic olive oil produced in Palestine.
It was founded by a group of 100 Presbyterians in response to the frustration, pain and poverty of the people of the Palestinian Occupied Territories during a 2006 trip with the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.
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