With Easter weekend upon us, millions of children all over the U.S. are looking forward to waking up Sunday morning to a basket full of candy and chocolates. On another continent, however, chocolate means an entirely different thing to its children. Many children on Africa’s Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) have never even tasted chocolate but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fair Trade’
This Easter: Go for the Fair Trade Chocolate Bunny
Posted by Casey on April 7th, 2012
Posted in Children, Poverty 
Tags: Child labor, chocolate, cocoa, Cote d'Ivoire, Easter, Fair Trade, Global Breakthrough, Ivory Coast 
No Comments »Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
Posted by Casey on October 3rd, 2011
The following is a book review of the remarkable story of Stacey Edgar and how she used a small investment to bring forth incredible change. At thirty-two years old Stacey Edgar was a restless social worker, a wife, a mother of three small children, had no passport, and no business plan. What she did have [...]
Posted in Poverty Tags: business, Economy, Empowering Women, Fair Trade, Human Trafficking, investment, Poverty Alleviation, Womens Rights No Comments »Consumers against slavery
Posted by Alicia on April 4th, 2011
In the last 20-30 years, our world has experienced an explosion in economic globalization. Unfortunately, as our contact with people and goods of other countries has increased, so too have our ties to slavery strengthened. In fact, slavery contributes roughly 13 billion dollars to the world’s economy directly. “In slavery today we can see that [...]
Posted in Human Trafficking Tags: Buying power, Causes, Consumers, David Batstone, Economy, Fair Trade, Human Trafficking, Not4Sale, Slavery No Comments »
