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Buy Products from Over 50 Countries At the Fair Trade Market This Month
A Fair Trade Market featuring food and products from countries around the world will be held Nov. 20-21 and 26-28. The market will be held at Manchester United Methodist Church, 129 Woods Mill Rd. in Manchester. Market hours are 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Entertainment, food and handicrafts from over 50 countries will be featured.
The Fair Trade Market is world-wide organization which promotes products from countries that support fair wages and decent work environments for its workforce. How we shop effects the world. Our buying habits can: open a sweatshop or launch a living wage co-operative; deforest a rain forest or preserve wild life and village life; or continue slave labor practices or grow Fair Trade chocolate and coffee.
Fair Trade is the only business model addressing both human and environmental issues. Without fair wages poverty contributes to the use of toxic materials, poaching of endangered wildlife, and deforesting of habitats for survival income. With a living wage, Fair Trade producers become conscious consumers contributing to the prosperity of their community.
A conscious consumer can mean life, food, water, shelter, education, health, savings and dignity to the producer through Fair Trade not aid. Fair trade can change the world with every purchase made.
Vendor booths will include:
• Just Sweets – Cocoa, sugar, and vanilla farmers. Just Sweets backery uses Fair Trade Certified ingredients, giving farmers a better livelihood.
• Partners for Just Trade is a non-profit, Christian organization that builds partnerships between artisans and farmers living in extreme poverty and conscientious consumers. The organization addresses root causes of poverty through education, solidarity, a commitment to trade justice and the sale of Fair Trade products.
• Plowsharing Crafts has provided meaningful income to skilled artisans around the world by marketing their products in the St. Louis area since 1985. It is the project/ministry of the St. Louis Mennonite Fellowship, one of two Mennonite churches located in the St. Louis area.
For more information, visit www.fairtrademonth.org.
