Fair Trade Month 2009 » Day 15: Educating and Empowering Fair Trade Producers

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Children of the Kuapa Kokoo Cooperative hold up a Fair Trade chocolate bar
Today is the best day of the year for those of us with an unquenchable sweet tooth: Halloween! If you’re too old to go trick-or-treating yourself this year, stay home and hand out Fair Trade Certified Chocolate to trick-or-treaters and explain the significance [...]

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Day 15: Educating and Empowering Fair Trade Producers

A coffee bean worker in Rwanda

TransFair USA works directly with Fair Trade farmers to help improve their product quality and market position. In 2008, for example, more than 107,000 farmers from 19 cooperatives in Brazil, Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Ivory Coast participated in training programs. These training programs help farmers keep a competitive edge with their products and increase their knowledge of the market demand for their products.

boardroom_lrg Support the empowerment of these workers! Through TransFair USA’s Gifts of Fairness, you can Give a Farmer a Seat in the Boardroom through your generous donation! TransFair USA’s Coffee Producers Advisory Council (CCC) serves as a venue for farmer leaders from across Latin America, Asia, and Africa to make sure their voices are heard. The CCC meets three times a year, and provides farmer leaders with the chance to meet with industry leaders, TransFair USA’s staff and Board, and key NGO allies. Help a farmer make the trip to this important council today!