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Support Chicago Fair Trade

Chicago Fair Trade is comprised of members from both organizations and individuals working to promote fair trade products and practices in Chicago. Become a member of Chicago Fair Trade today!

Buy Fair Trade Presents for Holidays and Birthdays

Do you have a special occassion to buy for? Choose a gift that gives twice - to the gift recipient and the fair trade artisan who made it. Support fair trade labor practices and environmentally sustainability when you buy a gift for a special occassion. On a budget? Greenheart offers Gifts Under $30.

Advocate for Fair Trade Cocoa

Most chocolate in the US comes from cocoa farms where farmers work in unsafe conditions and receive below poverty wages. In addition, child labor is prevalent in the chocolate industry, forcing children to work and be denied education. By choosing fair trade chocolate, farmers and their families can be ensured a decent living wage and working conditions. Fair trade your S’mores, Trick-or-Treating, and other holidays with fair trade chocolate!

Invite the First Lady to Join the “Fair” Party

A grass-roots, nonpartisan coalition of Fair Trade organizations, vendors, retailers, schools, individuals, and consumers, is inviting the First Lady to help extend the Fair Trade movement by declaring the White House a “Fair Trade Home”. Having the White House seek to purchase and use fair trade goods encourages households throughout the US to refine their buying habits toward ethical consumption so that poverty, both in the US and around the world, is reduced. To learn more, please visit www.fairtradewhitehouse.com.

Choose Fair Trade Products Whenever Possible

Your simple everyday choice of buying fair trade products makes a large difference in the lives of low-income artisans and farmers throughout the world.

Speak Up

If you cannot find fair trade products in your local stores, ask the managers to carry them or leave a note in the suggestion box. If enough customers ask for fair trade products, they will eventually start carrying fair trade.

Bring Fair Trade Coffee & Tea to Your Workplace, School, or Place of Worship

Encourage your workplace, school and/or place of worship to make the switch to fair trade coffee and tea. Explain to your co-workers how Fair Trade helps create a more just and sustainable global economy, and how serving fair trade products is part of the solution.