Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 4:32:29 GMT -5
There are gifts that are not only special for the people who receive them, but also represent a change in the lives of many families. Men and women like you, with boys and girls who would like to offer the opportunity to fend for themselves, to access education and training and to be able to have a job whose salary allows them to live a dignified life. And there are gifts that are much more than a gift. They are solidarity and hope. They are a positive change for the world . Do you want to practice responsible consumption and give one of these gifts? We present to you the original and supportive Christmas baskets from Oxfam Intermón. original-solidarity-christmas-basket They are special because they are full of Fair Trade products . Coffee, chocolate, wine, tea... products that are a guarantee of quality and sustainability, and behind which are great stories.
Stories like that of Violet Byamigisha , a woman who grows Fair Trade coffee in the community of Katenga, in Uganda, and who after becoming a widow was able to become a member of the ACPU cooperative Europe Mobile Number List and get her daily effort and work the reward she deserves. : receive a fair price for the coffee you grow . A high quality organic coffee that if you purchase, will allow Violet to give her five children the opportunity to access education. Her dreams are the same as those of any other mother: a better future for her children. Who would give it up? original-solidarity-christmas-baskets Violet Byamigisha, a farmer from the Katenga community, picking Arabica coffee beans. The Ankole Fair Trade Cooperative brings together associations of small farmers in the region promoting coffee production for subsequent marketing through fair trade.
Pablo Tosco / Oxfam Intermón Or people like Sapia Khatun , from Bangladesh, whose parents didn't have the money for her to finish primary education. They also did not have land to cultivate, nor a permanent job. The strong floods of 2000 in Bangladesh left them even deeper in nothingness. The opportunity for change came when Sapia started working at BASE, a Fair Trade cooperative that produces baskets. Thanks to her, Sapia received technical training to make these baskets, in addition to learning to read and write. With her work she can help her parents and pay for her sister's studies, which will ensure that she is not forced, like the majority of women and girls in Bangladesh, to work long hours in inhumane conditions in exchange for a salary. of misery original-solidarity-christmas-basket-3 Workers of the BASE cooperative, producer of Fair Trade baskets © Rafael Sanchís / Oxfam Intermón We can all enjoy a happy holiday if we are responsible consumers and choose to give Fair Trade products. Thanks to gestures like these it is possible to change lives like those of Violet or Sapia. But we still have many lives to change! If you haven't already, sign up for Fair Trade.
