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Playing fair is its own reward. The CRS Fair Trade Program allows you to buy great coffee, tasty chocolate and beautiful handcrafts. Your purchase through our fair trade marketplace promotes fair wages and human dignity.

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Join the CRS Fair Trade Network today!

When you sign up, you will receive periodic updates about the CRS Fair Trade Program and opportunities to participate in other CRS programs that serve our brothers and sisters in need overseas.

Support Fair Trade

Now you can contribute directly to the CRS Fair Trade Fund through our secure on-line donation platform. One hundred percent of your tax-deductible contributions are used to benefit Fair Trade farmers and artisans.

Welcome to the CRS Fair Trade Network

Volume I, Issue 1-Winter 2005

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the CRS Fair Trader, a quarterly e-newsletter for members of the CRS Fair Trade Network.

The CRS Fair Trader provides information on the Fair Trade movement in the United States, the CRS Fair Trade Program, and opportunities for you to get involved in your community.

Over time, we the CRS Fair Trader will add interactive features that will link you with the thousands of other people like you across the country who are actively supporting Fair Trade in their parishes, schools, offices and communities. The CRS Fair Trader-and the CRS Fair Trade Network it serves-will become an online community of action that mobilizes Catholics and other socially conscious consumers to build the Fair Trade movement.

Welcome to the community! Click here to refer up to five of your friends to the CRS Fair Trade Network!

CRS Fair Trade sales top $1 million

In 2004, CRS helped to sell more than $1 million in Fair Trade handcrafts, coffee and chocolate through its partners SERRV International and Equal Exchange, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in sorely needed revenue for thousands of low-income artisans and farmers overseas. On their behalf, CRS thanks you!

CRS Unveils New and Improved Fair Trade Program

CRS has introduced three exciting changes to its Fair Trade Program to better serve you!

First, we have launched a new website at www.crsfairtrade.org that is sleek, easy to navigate, and loaded with educational resources for you to use.

Second, we have identified more than 20 Fair Trade coffee roasters in the United States where you can buy Fair Trade coffee. Now there are more possibilities than ever for you to make local connections to the Fair Trade movement-something many of you have been asking for! Click here to view the CRS Coffee Map.

And third, we are giving away fabulous Fair Trade prizes to members of the CRS Fair Trade Network! Click here to invite up to five of your friends to register!

Work of Human Hands Celebrates 10th Anniversary

This year CRS and SERRV International mark ten years of proud partnership in the Work of Human Hands program. Since the program was launched in 1995, your participation has generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in sorely needed revenue for low-income artisans and farmers overseas. Thank you for your support during the past ten years. We look forward to doing bigger and better things together in the next ten.

Click here to shop for Fair Trade handcrafts online.

Click here for more about Work of Human Hands.

What's New for You

To Nicaragua and Back in 20 Slides Take A Virtual Tour of the Coffee Production Process

A New Way to Navigate the World of Coffee View the CRS Coffee Map.>>

Spread the Word Invite Your Friends and Family into the CRS Fair Trade Network >>

Travel to Nicaragua Join a Fair Trade delegation trip to Nicaragua March 15 - 21 Click here for more info

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