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Fair Trade Snacks and Naps
November 23, 2015Come relax with us. We’ll be serving fair trade tea and chocolate while you meditate!
11th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Sale
November 21, 2015Join us for our 11th Fair Trade Holiday Sale in the Indiana Memorial Union. We will be selling a lot of amazing good from Global Gifts such as jewelry, scarves, ornaments, children’s toys, and more! Stone Belt will also be joining us and selling their artwork which is made by people with disabilities.
Study Break With Fair Trade Club
November 19, 2015The Fair Trade Club at SUNY Geneseo will be hosting a study break in partnership with a local café – Café Shiloh. We do this every semester leading up to finals. We will have coffee, tea, and chocolate to share with students looking for a quick and relaxing break from studying. These delicious fair trade […]
Holiday Jubilee – Fair Trade Club Table With Chocolate & Holiday Letters
November 19, 2015Fair Trade Club will share samples of Equal Exchange chocolate and give students the opportunity to write holiday and thank you letters to the cocoa farmers! We’ll have a table in the Union Ballroom during the GLK Holiday Jubilee!
Fair Trade Fair
November 5, 2015As a part of the Shut Down Trafficking Week that is hosted in partnership with UNICEF and NCAS the university of UMass Boston will be hosting a Fair Trade Fair which will feature over 20 different fair trade businesses and local businesses that sell fair trade products.
Fair Trade Fair
November 5, 2015November 19, California Lutheran University will be hosting their annual Fair Trade Fair. Vendors that be coming include Fair Trade LA, Guayaki Yerba Mate, Dr. Bronners, Colores Del Pueblo, Pura Vida Bracelets, Deardorff Family Farms, Sodexo, Ben& Jerrys, Greyston Bakery, and many student clubs. Fair Trade products will be available for sale, raffles will be […]
Fair Trade Expo
November 2, 2015We will be hosting a Fair Trade Expo through our Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice & Public Understanding. A economics professor will be presenting on the business side of fair trade, and our student-run fair trade store, Discoveries International, will be presenting on what fair trade is. There will be a silent auction of […]
Thank the Farmers
October 28, 2015We will be asking people to fill out thank you cards that we will be sending to Fair Trade coffee farmers.
Ben and Jerry’s Fair Trade Ice Cream Social
October 28, 2015We will be handing out Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and spreading awareness about the club’s efforts and Fair Trade.
11TH FAIR TRADE GIFT FARE
October 25, 201511th annual International Gift Fair, we sell all fair trade items, crafts, coffee, chocolate,and educating the public about fair trade and its principles. we get support from the Stockton university SAVE group, and other non profits come and share what they do.
Sleep Out
October 21, 2015Wednesday is our big day, where we will be having our 7th annual sleep out to help students spend the night in solidarity with the homeless. The evening will include reflections and simulations of hunger and homelessness, then continue to the Hagan lawn for the overnight sleep out
Helping Hand Bags
October 21, 2015Put together bags to give out to homeless which consists of water bottle, granola bar, socks, mittens, deodorant, tooth brush, tooth paste
Soup Kitchen Challenge
October 21, 2015We will ask students and faculty to choose to eat what you would be given in a soup kitchen, typically a sandwich and a bowl of soup.