Fair Trade Handcrafts

Through the Work of Human Hands program, Catholic Relief Services and our nonprofit partner, SERRV, offer you the chance to buy high quality, fairly traded handcrafts and gourmet food items from disadvantaged producers all over the world. This program is a popular and easy way for you to act in solidarity with Fair Trade producers around the world. You can host a Work of Human Hands consignment sale as a community event or buy directly for yourself and your loved ones.

Either way, you are helping Fair Trade artisans and farmers get access to credit and training, earn a fair price and maintain long-term relationships with SERRV. Fair Trade partnerships are rooted in principles of human dignity and economic justice. With every purchase, A Greater Gift makes a significant contribution to the CRS Fair Trade Fund, to promote market access and development.  When you participate in Work of Human Hands, everyone wins — you get high-quality one-of-a-kind handcrafts and the people who created them get hope for a better future for themselves and their families.

This website is filled with tools to help you organize a sale as a community event in the future.  Right now, you can buy Work of Human Hands products and start building a better world, one purchase at a time!  Shopping with CRS Fair Trade means you are supporting artisans, bringing lovely items into your world and strengthening the Fair Trade movement!

Buy Fair Trade Handcrafts

Work of Human Hands offers four convenient ways for you to place a catalog order: online, telephone, fax and mail. (If you don't have the latest version of our, order a free copy of the Work of Human Hands catalog !

Online shopping is available now!

When you place your order, please write "CRS" in the comment line. A significant contribution will be made to the Fair Trade Fund.

Call 1.800.685.7572 to place your order or request a free catalog.

You can also request a catalog online.

Fax a completed order form

toll-free to 1.888.294.6376.

Mail the completed the order form to:

CRS-Work of Human Hands
c/o SERRV
P.O. Box 365
New Windsor, MD
21776-0365

Buy through Consignment Too!

To bring Fair Trade to your community, organize a consignment sale. It is a great way to celebrate the holidays or special events, while sharing the stories and talents of our brothers and sisters overseas.