Stored Bolivian cocoa © Green and Black
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Stored Bolivian cocoa © Green and Black |
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Fair trade means that the people who grow or make what we buy get a fair price and fair conditions. They can afford to put food on the table and send their children to school; we get great quality products. Windward Island banana grower © Fairtrade Foundation What the producers say ”Now … I can afford the fees to send my children to school. We used to collect our water from a stream that is 3 miles walk away… - the water was very bad, our children suffered from diarrhoea. …Now we have a well for clean water paid by fairtrade.
Manjula is an Embroidery worker in India. “It helps me in educating my children…it has created in me a kind of freedom, there is no need for me to extend my hand and ask for help and bow down before others. It has given me independence.”
Bernardo Jaen is a Pineapple farmer in Costa Rica. “Our fruit tastes great, but in the fairtrade system it’s not enough just to produce quality. This fruit is also about the way its produced. It’s about the environment. It’s about a fair system.” |
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