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From one of our partners in Chile: Dear Friends, After several days of attempting to contact producers in the most devastated areas of Chile, we are now able to send the first message with preliminary information about artisans who were seriously impacted by the earthquake and tsunami. The artisans listed below have lost their home [...]
Below is the latest news coming from our producers in Chile. Thankfully, it is good news so far. Thank you very much for your message and words this week ! I hope you are very well ! I am sorry for the delay to communicate with you, but the situation is not easy here during [...]
We have a small herd of elephants in our warehouse that are un-sellable for one reason or another, actually, it is just one reason. When they were packing them in Zimbabwe, they glued the packing paper to the poor elephant and now the two are inseparable. It is unfortunate, because they are perfectly fine otherwise, [...]
Sample Sale We often get samples, sometimes requested sometimes they just arrive. Today we are starting auctions on eBay for around 100 of these samples with the proceeds being used to assist artisans. We hope we will have enough funds to invite an artisan partner to the Fair Trade Futures conference in Boston Sept 10th [...]
The following is an update from TEMAK History of St Valentines Day Valentine’s Day – the popular festival of love and romances traces its origin to ancient Roman festival and has not been created by card companies as some people believe it to be. There are various legends associated with the festival along with the belief that birds began to [...]
In our short visit, we visited two villages outside of Panajatchel. A thirty minute SUV ride into the mountains brought us to a small cinder-block building, the weaving center of Solola Weavers in Chuacruz. It was embarrassingly our first view of the laborious tasks involved in weaving the products we’d been selling. Women set up [...]
If you were to stroll over to Better.tv and Shefinds.com today, you’ll find our fair trade bangles from South African featured along with other eco-friendly products that spruce up your wardrobe. To see what all the fuss is about take a look at these bangles in action in the New York Fashion Week. Get them [...]
Every order over $50 gets free standard shipping. So, it is a little painful for us when we fill an order for something costing $49.99 and then the person pays $5.00 for shipping. So here is a suggestion to spend your money on product, instead of shipping. Observe: $24.99 + $24.99 Subtotal $49.98 Must pay [...]
