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Hope Gardens

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Fair Trade Sends Our Kids to School

Because of Fair Trade, more children at the Abakunda Kawa Fair Trade Coffee Cooperative in Rwanda are enrolled in school than ever before.

ID# 35

Learning New Skills

All association members were encouraged to learn how to operate the Co-op’s new heirloom rice milling equipment during the Operator’s Training workshop in Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines.

(Additional photo information: Photo taken by Fair Trade Federation member Mary Hensley of Eighth Wonder, Inc. during a workshop to train farmers in the operation and maintenance of their new custom-designed milling equipment for native varieties of rice.)

ID# 36

Rice Terrace Maintenance

Maintenance of the mountain rice terraces in the Philippines is a never-ending task. A Fair Trade market for heirloom rice is helping to support a revitalization of these environmentally fragile and culturally significant indigenous agricultural areas.

(Additional photo information: Photo taken by Vicky Garcia, executive director of RICE, Inc., the supporting NGO for the Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project, in Barlig, Mountain Province, Philippines on a recent inspection of native rice fields prior to harvest.)

ID# 37

Tanudan Rice Farmers

Members of the Tanudan Farmers’ Association pose for a group picture with their village of Lower Lubo (Kalinga, Philippines) and their extensive fields of native heirloom rice as a backdrop. A Fair Trade market for heirloom rice offers hope and opportunity to terraces farmers in these remote mountain areas.)

(Additional photo information: Photo taken by Vicky Garcia, executive director of RICE, Inc., after a training of village quality control inspectors for heirloom rice.)

ID# 55

MayaWorks Artisan, Angela, Weaves on a Backstrap Loom in Comalapa, Guatemala

ID# 56

MayaWorks Artisans from San Marcos La Laguna Crochet Kippot, or Yamulkes

ID# 67

Daughters of Cacao Farmers

Daughters of cacao farmers attend school wearing uniforms and backpacks provided by CONACADO, a Fair Trade cooperative in the Dominican Republic.

ID# 69

Pine Needle Baskets in Xeabaj

Weaving in Xeabaj, Santa Apolonia, Chimaltenago, Guatemala, for Mayan Hands, a member of FTF.

ID# 70

Three Generations of Weavers

A family with three generations of backstrap weavers in Vasconcelos, Solola, Guatemala.

ID# 71

Nicaraguan School Children

Children in La Carona, Matagalpa, Nicaragua, get to attend school and have other benefits because their parents belong to the Cecocaphen cooperative and get better prices for their crops. Since they live on their farms, these children are not exposed to the pesticides and other chemicals that are more typically used on non-Fair Trade crops.

ID# 79

Tassatags Allowing Travelers to Reclaim Their Luggage While Allowing Women to Reclaim Their Lives

TassaTag, the luggage tag that helps you spot your luggage more easily, is a project of ECPAT-USA, a non-profit children’s rights organization whose mission is to protect all children from commercial sexual exploitation. The tags are produced by women in The Regina Center in Nongkhai, Thailand. The proceeds are returned to the center allowing the women to stay within their villages, produce a steady income, and enroll their children within school. These three initiatives are three essential components in the fight against trafficking and exploitation. The Regina Center is one of the producing partners of HandCrafting Justice, a member of the Fair Trade Federation.