2011 Photo Contest Winners

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The 12 winning photos were featured each month in the 2012 Fair Trade Calendar. To enter photos, or vote, in the contest whose winners will be featured in the 2013 Fair Trade Calendar, see Fair Trade Photo Contest details.

Over 2500 people voted for favorites of the 78 photos entered into the June 2011 contest!

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	1st Place Winner Entry #23 Credit: The Blessing Basket Project Newsophine’s children say it all – buying momma’s baskets from The Blessing Basket Project® enables her to provide healthier meals and a better home for them. Today these Madagascar children attend school and enjoy a life of peace and prosperity thanks to your purchases.

	Winner Entry#2 Credit: Chelsea Bay Wills Machamoud Isa and his son, Noor, on their farm in Anin in The West Bank. This farm is part of the Palestinian Fair Trade Association. Their olive oil is sold in the USA by Canaan Fair Trade. By opening up the international markets through fair trade, these farmers have been able to go back to organic farming practices, join with other family farms in cooperatives, and begin to make a living wage.

	Winner Entry#6 Credit: Baskets of Africa A weaver in a village outside of Bolgatanga, Ghana, works on a fair trade market basket knowing that even in the dry season, when crops won’t grow, she can still earn a sustainable living wage to support her family.

	Winner Entry #10 Credit: Inca Kids Lucca Rodriguez (2yo) from Atlanta GA loving her fair trade handknitted doll and finger puppet from Inca Kids. Inca Kids works exclusively with skilled artisans from Peru and is a proud member of the FTF.

	Winner Entry #15 Credit: MayaWorks Mirna and Felicita proudly display products handcrafted by artisans in Agua Caliente, Guatemala. Felicita uses her advanced weaving skills to create an income which allows her to provide for her family. Mirna is MayaWorks’ Production Coordinator who oversees quality control to ensure products are ready for market.

	Winner Entry #20 Credit: Project Have Hope Project Have Hope is a non-profit which empowers women in Uganda’s Acholi Quarter. The women are talented artisans who craft jewelry from recycled paper. Project Have Hope uses the profits to help the women establish additional income generating activities through direct loans, vocational training and agricultural initiatives

	Winner Entry #40 Credit: Laundromat “Sea of Blue”.. Sterling blue #23 drying under the sun in Bhaktapur, Nepal.

	Winner Entry #50 Credit: Eric St-Pierre Rabaya Begum, an artisan with the Biborton Handmade Paper Project in Bangladesh, rearranges silk paper leaves that are drying in the sun. Photo © Eric St-Pierre, from his book: Fair trade: a human journey, published by Les Éditions de l’Homme, 2010, Canada. www.ericstpierre.ca

	Winner Entry #56 Credit: Vivien Sansour Aida Karam is a Canaan Fair Trade olive oil producer. Born and raised in Jalqamous village, she and her brother inherited land from their parents and have been carrying on the Palestinian traditions of planting and harvesting while adopting new organic methods to improve their soil and their environment.

	Winner Entry #63 Credit: Robert Domoguen Margarita Otgalon, aged 79, leads in the harvest of Tinawon rice seeds. As a respected “seed keeper” of her village in the Philippines, Otgalon is responsible for selecting the very best seeds for next year’s planting. A Fair Trade market for her village’s traditional rice means that this heirloom variety may survive into the future.

	Winner Entry #64 Credit: Mata Traders Block printing is an artisan craft passed down for generations within families in India. The fabric is stamped by hand with carved blocks of wood, applying one color at a time. Mata Traders is proud to help sustain this beautiful tradition by using block printed fabrics in our clothing line.

	Winner Entry #74 Credit: Fibres of Life Humour is a core skill in the simultaneously challenging and amazing journeys of fair trade partnerships. Growing laughter, pokes, and the candidacy that comes with it are our official indicators of growing trust, honesty and joy in our partnership between Fibres of Life (www.fibresoflife.com), and The Kumbeshwar Technical School in Nepal. Photography by Visual Hues Photography.