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Medill Reports, IL Hamsa Ramesha
Kaboombas are flying off the shelves at the Evanston Ten Thousand Villages shop.
The Kaboomba, also known as the Galimoto, is a hand-crafted bicycle man made from scrap material in Ghana. The $6 toy is simple but amusing and hugely popular with customers, said store manager Doug Horst.
Unusual products like these are keeping the nonprofit store busy despite the economic crisis. While month to month sales have fluctuated, performance has been fairly steady when compared with the year earlier period. (more…)
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Daily Illini, IL Emily Thiersch
Most students can tell you whether they like coffee - and they may be able to tell you their favorite coffee shop, which they frequent most likely out of habit or for the ambiance. But very few can tell you where the coffee they buy comes from, how many hands might have touched it or how much the farmer who grew the beans earned at the end of the day.
But there are those students who keep in mind when they enter a coffee shop that each cup of coffee comes from somewhere - that a farmer most likely picked the beans on a plot of land in South America or Africa. These are often the students who ask for fair trade coffee. (more…)
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SMC Collegian, CA Skylar Covich
The Mission and Ministry Center is beginning a project to educate the campus about the economic and social justice movement known as fair trade.
On Friday morning, the first of a series of monthly events known as “Fair Trade Fridays” was held at the Mission and Ministry Center’s lounge, near the Chapel. Fair trade coffee, tea and chocolates were available.
Rebecca Sallee, associate director of Lasallian mission, said that the products were bought from Lasalle High School in Yakima, Washington, which is involved in a project to find and sell fair trade products. (more…)
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Pacific University, OR International Club
The Pacific University International Club and Humanitarian Center will support the efforts of artisans around the world by selling their handmade gifts, home decor, jewelry and personal accessories from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm on November 20th, 21st, and 22nd in the Washburne University Center of the Forest Grove campus. This event offers a unique opportunity for people in the Forest Grove community to invest in their world by shopping fair trade. Shoppers will also learn more about skilled artisans in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. This is part of Pacific’s celebration of International Education Week, an annual initiative of the U.S. Department of State that highlights the the importance of international student exchange and global awareness education. (more…)
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USA Today Brittney Bain
Halloween’s a time for pumpkins, costumes, and — if some faith-based groups have their way this year — global market awareness.
Faith organizations and congregations around the country are promoting fair-trade chocolate for trick-or-treaters to raise consciousness about conditions and prices for cocoa farmers around the world.
“This is an example of how everybody has the ability to make some change,” said Susan Burton, who works for the the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society in Washington. (more…)
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www.herald-dispatch.com Herald Dispatch, WV
Senior public relations major Katherine Reasons is hosting a non-profit international gift festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. The Yeager Scholar is giving the proceeds from the festival to Ten Thousand Villages, a non-profit organization that supports artisans around the world by providing them with fair and stable income for work. The organization currently supports more than 130 artisan groups in 36 countries.
“Simply buying a gift at this event will help create jobs for people in other countries,” Reasons said. “I just want to raise awareness about the ways people in our community can help people around the world.” (more…)
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The Virginian-Pilot, VA Steven Vegh
As her boys stroll door-to-door hollering “trick or treat” this Halloween, Katherine Johnke will be right behind them with another message: “Fair trade chocolate!”
Johnke, 38, of Chesapeake, will give homeowners chocolates guaranteed not to be produced with child labor or unfair pricing for farmers. (more…)
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CBS 3 Springfield, MA Justine Judge
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A group of Hadley teens are putting a new spin on Trick or Treating. They’re trying to to change the kind of chocolate people buy to help kids half a world away. Instead of Trick or Treat it will be Trick and Trade. (more…)
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www.myfoxtwincities.com Fox 9 News, MN
Trick-or-treaters in Mankato are spreading awareness about Fair Trade chocolate and problems with the global cocoa trade this Halloween.
A few hundred children are expected to participate in “reverse trick-or-treating,” giving chunks of chocolate to homeowners in exchange for candy. (more…)
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www.newswire.ca Canada NewsWire
Thousands of costumed trick-or-treaters across Canada are turning the traditional Halloween ritual on its head; for the second year in a row, it is the trick-or-treaters who are handing out chocolate.
Hundreds of thousands of Fair Trade Certified chocolate samples will be given out across North America to raise awareness on the persistent problems of poverty in cocoa-growing communities, the use of exploited child labour in the cocoa fields of countries like Cote D’Ivoire, which produces 40 percent of the world’s cocoa, and the environmental damage resulting from unsustainable farming practices. Participants will reach nearly a quarter of a million households in Canada and the United States in a single night. (more…)
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