Shop Fair Trade this Holiday Season!

Photo Credit: IMs BILDARKIV, flickr.com.

LSTC will be hosting a fair trade fair with handmade products from around the world that support small artisans and farmers!  They will be featuring products from Lutheran World Relief/SERRV International, Equal Exchange, BeadForLife, and small artisans in Rwanda.  Stop by and pick up some Christmas presents for your loved ones while supporting people around the world who benefit directly from your purchase.

LWR and SERRV work with artisans from around the world, helping people and small cooperatives sell their products for a fair price, and helping them improve the conditions of their lives through their work.  These products are all sweat free and support both the artisan and Lutheran World Relief from their purchase.

Photo Credit: IMs BILDARKIV, flickr.com.

SERRV also makes Divine chocolate, a product of Ghana and Germany which produces ethically grown and produced chocolate products.  Equal Exchange is a coop based in Boston, MA that imports, roasts, and sells coffee and tea from growers around the world.  Coffee is one of the world's most traded commodities, and all too often grown in conditions that are not environmentally sustainable, and also sold to buyers at prices that cannot sustain the life of the farmers.  Equal Exchange works directly with growers to cut out middle men who take profits away from them. Various teas will also be offered from Equal Exchange.  BeadForLife is an organization that works with women from Uganda who make beads out of paper and turn them into jewelry.  Kendrah Fredrickson will also offer items from artisans from Rwanda.  All these products support ethical and fair standards of living and wages for the people that produce them.

Stop by the main lobby of LSTC next week and pick up some gifts for people that help others!

Shop during the following times:

Dec. 6: 11:30a-4:00pm
Dec. 7: 2:30pm-6:00pm
Dec. 8: 9:00am-12:30pm
Dec. 9: 10:00am-2:00pm