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World Fair Trade Day
May 10, 2007
Celebrate World Fair Trade Day on May 12!
Saturday, May 12, is World Fair Trade Day! Join thousands of Fair Trade supporters in showing your support for Fair Trade by hosting or attending one of the many tastings, craft sales, film screenings and other fun Fair Trade events happening in communities around the globe. How about honoring Mom this Mother's Day by giving her Fair Trade chocolates that make a big difference for cocoa farmers and their families? And it's not too late to entert the Children's Fair Trade Art Contest and vote online for the winners.
Fair Trade Products and Places
All the Way from Africa
Jazzman's Cafe has unveiled a Fair Trade Certified organic blend from Oromia, Ethiopia as part of its Noteworthy Coffees limited edition series. Through Fair Trade sales, the Oromia Coffee Farmers' Cooperative Union has been able to build schools, health centers and clean water stations in rural Ethiopia. Jazzman's Fair Trade Ethiopia-Oromia blend will be available at all 190-plus locations nationwide through summer.
Fair Trade Sugar Sweetens Fruit Preserves
Food For Thought Inc., creator of award-winning gourmet organic and wild-harvested specialty foods, has launched the first line of fruit preserves in the U.S. to be made with Fair Trade Certified sugar! Flavors include Organic Blackberry Shiraz, Organic Strawberry Basil and Organic Cherry Cabernet. Yum!
Robin's Chocolate Sauce
This Fair Trade Certified dark chocolate sauce won the "Best New Product 2007" Award in the Specialty Foods category at the New England Products Trade Show. Good for the farmers, good for the earth, and great for your tastebuds!
American Instants Fair Trade Hot Cocoa
Fair Trade is more than just coffee! Fair Trade Certified Hot Cocoa from American Instants is available for purchase here. They offer it in foodservice size bags, so be sure to tell your school or office dining officials you want Fair Trade cocoa - now it's easier than ever to get.
Gourmet Coffee for the Masses
At select T.J. Maxx and Marshalls stores you can now find organic, kosher, Fair Trade Certified gourmet coffee along with discount designer fashions. Roasted by Washington-based Nectar of Life Coffee Company and offered at only $5.99 per bag, these Fair Trade blends are sure to please your pocketbook and palate while impacting farmers from Peru to Papua New Guinea.
