Why Buy Fair Trade?
At the Women and Fair Trade Festival, a member of the cooperative Jolom Mayaetik, which in Tzotzil means “Mayan Weavers,” demonstrates ancestral techniques for the weaving of beautiful textiles.
Fair Trade is a global movement that puts people and the planet first by ensuring fair practices and living wages for workers, producers, and sellers of all consumer goods. For women in the global economy, fair trade assures that the first producer like the laborer who sewed our clothes or assembled a part of the good we buy, or the person who grew the coffee bean for the coffee we drink, earns enough to support a family and to afford adequate shelter, utilities, groceries, clothing, education, and health care.