Make JUST ONE Fair Trade purchase this year
JUST ONE – ONE billion people live on less than ONE dollar a day.
With Fair Trade, we get things we need and people in developing countries get dignified work that helps break cycles of poverty and dependency. Just one Fair Trade purchase by every churchgoer in America this year would lift one million families out of this poverty for one whole year.
Centerpointe and Trade as One believe that good business should do good, be transparent, and enhance life on this planet. Trade as One seeks to alleviate two extremes: the poverty that defines much of the developing world and the empty consumerism that has left much of the developed world bereft of meaning and purpose.
What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between producers and consumers. Fair Trade offers producers in developing countries a better deal, improved terms of trade and the opportunity to improve their lives and stay out of poverty or abuse. Fair Trade offers consumers a powerful way to make a positive impact through their every day shopping.
When a product carries the Fair Trade mark it means the producers and traders have met Fair Trade standards. The standards are designed to address the imbalance of power in trading relationships, unstable markets and the injustices of conventional trade.
How can I purchase Fair Trade Certified products through Trade as One and other Fair Trade organizations?
You can view products and make purchases through their websites such as tradeasone.com, tenthousandvillages.org, twohandsworldshop.com, globalexchangestore.org and more.
You may also find a listing of local Bay Area businesses that sell Fair Trade coffee, tea and chocolate at transfairusa.org.
If you would like to learn more about JUST ONE Fair Trade or would like to participate in Centerpointe’s efforts to promote Fair Trade, please contact Claudia Wanlin.
