Choosing the new caramel version of Traidcraft's popular FairBreak wafer bar is only one of the tasty ways in which you can respond to this year’s challenge: Change today – choose Fairtrade.
Made using sugar from Malawi, FairBreak is helping to change todays – and tomorrows – for sugar cane famers and their families in a particularly poor region of one of the world's poorest countries.
Boreholes providing safe, clean water, a village's first electricity supply, and new, higher-yielding varieties of sugar cane are just some of the benefits paid for from the Fairtrade premium they have earned on sugar sales to organisations like Traidcraft.
Travelling preacher and sugar farmer, the Rev Jameson Mbviko says: "Jesus calls us to love our neighbours. Buying our sugar is a way of loving your neighbours in this part of Malawi."
The 91-page catalogue also contains tempting ranges of clothing, jewellery, textiles, toys, housewares, stationery, and greetings cards.
Highlights include:
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An exclusive selection of T-shirts and tops made using Fairtrade certified organic cotton from India and tailored by Craft Aid in Mauritius. Buying one T-shirt delivers benefit to two groups!
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A great selection of stylish and practical bags, purses and accessories from groups in India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Indonesia and Vietnam, providing fair wages and secure incomes for craftworkers and their families.
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A wide selection of foods, teas, coffees, wine, snacks and treats – all of them bringing real benefits to poor communities.
Order your own copy of the catalogue on 0845 330 890 or, if you can’t wait, you can view – and buy – Traidcraft’s whole range on www.traidcraftshop.co.uk.
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Notes to editors:
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Traidcraft's nationwide network of more than 5,000 Fair Traders, the vast majority of whom are church-based, contribute around half of Traidcraft's annual turnover (£20m in 2006-7). No other fair trade organisation, in the UK or Europe, possesses such a valuable asset.
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Traidcraft is the UK's leading fair trade organisation and has been fighting poverty through trade for nearly 30 years.
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Traidcraft works to fight poverty through trade by:
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Trading with producers in Africa, Asia and Latin America;
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Helping people in the developing world to build sustainable businesses;
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Influencing policy makers in government and business to change the way trade is governed and practiced.
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Traidcraft sources its products from community-based businesses in the developing world, paying fair prices to the producers and distributing the products in the UK.
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In addition to its Fair Trader network, Traidcraft sells via mail order, online, supermarkets, and independent fair trade retailers.
