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Saint Mary’s College Fair Trade Resolution
May 22, 2014The Saint Mary’s College Fair Trade Resolution was approved by the President of the College, his Cabinet and Fair Trade Committee. The Sustainability Committee and the Social Justice Coordinating Committee were made aware of the efforts to achieve Fair Trade Status and approved of the endeavor.
We serve Fair Trade recipes at our Fair Trade month October celebration. The desserts have fair trade ingredients and we show the congregation members the Fair Trade ingredients we used.
May 21, 2014We serve desserts made with Fair Trade ingredients after the October Fair Trade month celebration and list what ingredients we used as well as show the product containers.
We participate in Reverse Trick or Treat chocolate program every Halloween. We also sell Fair Trade Valentine chocolate every Valentine’s Day.
May 21, 2014We sell Reverse Trick or Treat Fair Trade mini chocolates with the explanatory cards to congregation members at Halloween. They give them to children who come trick or treating at their door or their children hand them to the people at whose houses they go trick or treating. We sell Fair Trade chocolate hearts to […]
We have a Fair Trade Christmas bazaar every December.
May 21, 2014We alternate between 10,000 Villages and SERRV for our Christmas bazaar and have three Sundays for people to shop at our bazaar and buy Christmas presents. We order and have them send the products and then pack up what’s left and send it back.
Fair Trade products are for sale and in use during fellowship time.
May 21, 2014We use fair Trade coffee, tea and sugar during fellowship time. We also have a table and display case with Fair Trade chocolate bars, coffee, tea, cocoa, baking cocoa, soup mixes and scone mixes for sale in the fellowship hall.
Fair Trade service to celebrate Fair Trade Day was held May 18. We had a special Fair Trade chocolate tasting after the service. We had a Fair Trade Challenge activity where people brought their Fair Trade wrappers to church and put them on a bulletin board so people could see what is available in town.
May 21, 2014We had a worship service to celebrate Fair Trade. All the prayers and songs were related to Fair Trade. The children’s moments was a play about Fair Trade chocolate. The sermon was a play about how a child on a cocoa farm was impacted by becoming a Fair Trade farm. We handed out Fair Trade […]
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May 21, 2014Fair Trade Manual
May 21, 2014Anthropology Career Night
May 21, 2014Alumni Event Featuring Fair Trade Refreshments
May 21, 2014Global Market at the Campus Store
May 21, 2014The Global Market at the Houghton College Campus Store offers Fair Trade products from all over the world, including coffee, tea, chocolate, jewelry, accessories, musical instruments, kids’ toys, bags, kitchen gifts, and much more!
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May 21, 2014We have a self serving mini kiosk set up in the school main office with mini chocolates. Teachers, administrative staff, maintenance staff and volunteer parents have access to the mini kiosk.
Tomball UMC
May 20, 2014Church that serves Fair Trade coffee and hosts Fair Trade events for the community.