Comments on: Fair Trade Month Wraps Up http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/31/fair-trade-month-wraps-up/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:41:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Francisco http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/31/fair-trade-month-wraps-up/#comment-551493 Francisco Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:48:45 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/31/fair-trade-month-wraps-up/#comment-551493 sorry, www.remedyroastingcompany.com sorry, http://www.remedyroastingcompany.com

]]> By: Francisco http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/31/fair-trade-month-wraps-up/#comment-551492 Francisco Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:48:26 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/31/fair-trade-month-wraps-up/#comment-551492 Check out Remedy Roasting Company, another great business selling "far trade" coffee made by farmers that cant afford the certification. Check out Remedy Roasting Company, another great business selling “far trade” coffee made by farmers that cant afford the certification.

]]> By: Debbie K http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/31/fair-trade-month-wraps-up/#comment-551461 Debbie K Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:11:45 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/31/fair-trade-month-wraps-up/#comment-551461 As a regular poster & contributor at a Fair Trade website, we have explo(red) many times over that whole area of Fair Trade Certification and of how that process can often be ostracising for those in poor countries that do not have the money available to go through the rigorous Fair Trade standards to get the right to attach the logo above to their products. As this is not the forum to discuss the pros & cons of the fair trade certification process, I will say that while I support the fact that we do need standards for what we label "fair trade", the lack of the label above should not automatically disincline us from buying from groups who are using fair trade principles but can't afford the fair trade logo. One such group is the one which I am connected with. ALL the money raised from the sale of the items at the MPWN website goes directly back to the women in Uganda, who are all HIV+, to bolster their meager incomes to take care of their children. That 100% return on your dollar spent to the woman who produces the item that you buy at our website is about as close to fair trade as you can get! Hope to see some of our ONE supporters visiting our website soon and considering purchases from there for the Holidays. Our website was the dream of our own Agnes Nyamayarwo and the money raised goes to help the HIV+ women that she works with in Uganda. All in the ONE Family.... LIVING POSITIVELY, debbie :) www.mpwn-uganda.org As a regular poster & contributor at a Fair Trade website, we have explo(red) many times over that whole area of Fair Trade Certification and of how that process can often be ostracising for those in poor countries that do not have the money available to go through the rigorous Fair Trade standards to get the right to attach the logo above to their products.

As this is not the forum to discuss the pros & cons of the fair trade certification process, I will say that while I support the fact that we do need standards for what we label “fair trade”, the lack of the label above should not automatically disincline us from buying from groups who are using fair trade principles but can’t afford the fair trade logo.

One such group is the one which I am connected with.

ALL the money raised from the sale of the items at the MPWN website goes directly back to the women in Uganda, who are all HIV+, to bolster their meager incomes to take care of their children.

That 100% return on your dollar spent to the woman who produces the item that you buy at our website is about as close to fair trade as you can get!

Hope to see some of our ONE supporters visiting our website soon and considering purchases from there for the Holidays.

Our website was the dream of our own Agnes Nyamayarwo and the money raised goes to help the HIV+ women that she works with in Uganda.

All in the ONE Family….

LIVING POSITIVELY, debbie :)
http://www.mpwn-uganda.org

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