3rd International Artisan Market 

Fair Trade: A Christmas Opportunity

 

Please attend the 3rd International Artisan Market on December 9th from 9am

to 6pm at Bergamo Center, Mount St. John, 4400 Shakertown Rd., Beavercreek Ohio.

 

 

With Fair Trade everyone wins-you get beautiful, fairly traded handcrafts and the people who produced them get hope for a better future for themselves and their families.

 

Under the conventional trading system, low-income artisans in less developed countries work long hours to produce goods for consumers in wealthy nations, but often earn less than a dollar per day.  The big profits go to the brokers, importers, and retailers who rely on a system that pays low wages to producers and charges high prices to consumers like you.

 

Work of Human Hands is part of a Fair Trade movement that offers a clear and just alternative to the conventional system.  Fair Trade is based on direct relationships with low-income producers overseas.  It eliminates the intermediaries who exploit low-income producers and drive up the prices of the goods we buy.  It guarantees artisans a fair price for their products, access to credit and training, and the stability of long-term relationships rooted in the principles of mutual respect and economic justice.  And it creates opportunities for us to make meaningful connections with the people overseas who produce the goods we consume here in the United States.

 

For more information call 426-2363 or visit www.bergamocenter.org.  Thisis a non-profit.