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Holy Family Church – Fair Trade Supporter

Fair Trade products are available six days a week at the Holy Family Bookstore, giving parishioners and visitors an opportunity to purchase fairly traded, affordable products. Holy Family further educates its parishioners about Fair Trade through the weekly bulletin and on its website. Holy Family Church 1501 Fremont Avenue South Pasadena, CA 91030 USA Welcome […]

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Emily Spateholts

What would you like to hear about on the Fair Trade Schools Webinar?

We’re hosting a Fair Trade Schools webinar next Tuesday, May 20. You are invited to attend, as well as support us in getting the word out to schools in your community! When is the webinar? Date: Tuesday, May 20 Time: 5:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm CT/ 2:00 pm PT Register Here: http://bit.ly/QG6cfA

Moms Against Monsanto

Marching for human Rights, the right to know what’s being put in these chemically ladened products currently sold under the disguise of foods, the right to object to being human test subjects without our knowledge and letting others know because we care about all living creatures that deserve to live poison free.

11th Meeting: Wed. May 28th 6:15-7:45

Please let us know if you are coming by sending your email to FairTradePHL@gmail.com. Thank you.

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Jane Dow

Poverty Awareness Week

Institute for Franciscan Studies Office

Office of Campus Ministry

Fair Trade Banana Taste-Test

Fair Trade bananas are available at 2 local supermarkets and we have worked to introduce the differences between FT and conventional bananas to our congregation at Coffee hour after church. At our recent WFTD Coffee hour, we had a man in a giant banana suit offering FT and Conventional bananas around the tables and engaging […]

Fair Trade Coffee and Tea at Fellowship and in our Fair Trade Store

In the spring of 2009 St. John’s became a Fair Trade church and wanted to serve Fair Trade coffee and tea. We started with a taste testing of different brands and flavors. The decision was made to purchase through Equal Exchange their ground Fellowship Blend in regular and decaf and we have been serving it […]

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Internship Grant Application – For Fair Trade Colleges & Universities

Fair Trade and Local Coffee Hours for WFTD

Each week after worship (2 services at 8 and 10:30am) we have a social time and volunteers serve fair trade coffee, tea and snacks. For WFTD the FT Team registered our event and received the awesome box of products and educational materials. We cooked with some of the products and we displayed others and gave […]

Holiday Fair Trade Bazaar

For the past 4 years, we have invited the owner of the Mountain Lake, MN Ten Thousand Villages Store, Joyce Bucklin, to come and sell Fair Trade crafts in early December. Joyce is assisted by our Fair Trade committee members, who help educate purchasers about Fair Trade.

Fair Trade Education at St John’s Episcopal, Mankato

One of our first efforts as a Fair Trade Church was to work with adults and children through Reverse-Trick-or-Treating. We hosted an adult education class and utilized some Global Exchange materials to educate our children on the abusive child labor history in chocolate production. Families then ordered through us, the Halloween mini-bars and info cards […]