CRS Fair Trade News
The fair choice is the right choice. The daily decisions you make as a consumer can make a real, positive difference in the world. When you choose to buy fair trade products you are making a strong connection with hardworking, but impoverished workers around the world. Our CRS Fair Trade network guarantees fair wages to disadvantaged artisans, farmers and workers. It also provides the technical and financial assistance that poor people so desperately need but so rarely get in the conventional trading system. Team up with us. Buy fair trade products and you return human dignity to people just like you.
CRS Fair Trade Blog
Where the CRS Fair Trade Community Meets
Stay updated with CRS on timely issues and concerns or special dates, events and activities. This section features a variety of announcements, resources, and links from CRS, partners and other international organizations and will be updated on a regular basis.
Fair Trade Coffee
Serve coffee that serves others.
Find a CRS partner near you and buy some of their fantastic Fair Trade coffee to drink at home. Persuade the powers-that-be to serve it in your parish, office and school. Lobby to get it into the dining halls on your campus. Sell it as a fundraiser.
Fair Trade Crafts
Give gifts that give hope.
Work of Human Hands features thousands of beautiful handcrafted items from dozens of countries around the world, and brings communities together in the United States in support of disadvantaged artisans overseas. When you host a consignment salein your parish, school or office, you allow members of your community to buy beautiful items for their homes and to give gifts that give hope. No time to organize an event? Then purchase Fair Trade items directly from the catalog.
Fair Trade Chocolate
Make the world sweeter.
Thanks to Fair Trade, chocolate is not just a yummy treat, but a delicious way to promote economic justice. Divine Chocolate helps cocoa farmers in Ghana earn extra income to invest in community services, such as water wells, schools and health clinics. Divine Chocolate also empowers farmers like the ones pictured here to take greater control of their lives, since they own nearly half the company! Buy Divine Chocolate for yourself or sell it in your school as a way to "Raise Money Right."
The CRS Fair Trade Fund
Expanding Fair Trade.
Every time you buy an item through the CRS Fair Trade Program, a percentage of your purchase goes to the CRS Fair Trade Fund to help expand the Fair Trade model through Development Grants to producer groups overseas and Market-Building Grants to Fair Trade advocates in the United States. And now you can contribute directly to the Fair Trade Fund through our secure on-line donation platform. One hundred percent of your tax-deductible contributions are used to support worthy projects like the Fair Trade Cup of Coffee event in Bolivia, pictured here.