Trade As One
Gift Shop in Fremont, CA
We live in a world with two crises. The 1st is the crisis of extreme poverty that affects much of the developing world. The 2nd is the crisis of meaning brought about by vacuous consumerism that has left much of the developed world with a different sort of poverty. We believe Fair Trade is a way to alleviate both. Our story is of people from different parts of the world, deciding that they want to see consumer spending used to fix problems instead of create them. We passionately believe that dignified job creation is the only long term way to break cycles of poverty.