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Trade Partners
Partners for Just Trade works closely with
Trade Partners in order to satisfy all aspects
of Fair Trade. Our Trade Partners are on the
ground and regularly visit and work with the
different producers who participate in our Fair
Trade partnerships. Below is a little
information about our Trade
Partners.
Bridge of Hope
Bridge of Hope is a member of the World Fair Trade Organization and is a part of the Joining Hands Peru Network which is made up of 14 community groups, churches and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who believe that, in this era of globalization, it is important to work on the international level as well as local to have a real impact on the policies which define the context within which poor and marginalized people live.
Bridge of Hope was formed in 2002 with the goal to work with artisans recommended by the institutions of the Joining Hands Network as persons living in poverty and willing to work in cooperative-style groups as self-sustaining businesses. Bridge of Hope now works with over 15 different artisan groups in various communities in Peru and the organization is a leader in the trade justice movement in Peru.
Partners for Just Trade sprouted from Bridge of Hope's work in Peru in order to expand the market for the artisans' products into the United States and educate North Americans about this alternative model of trade. Learn more about Bridge of Hope and the Peruvian artisans here >>
RELUFA
The
REseau de LUtte contre la FAim (RELUFA) is a
non-partisan national network of Cameroonian
ecumenical and secular non-profit organizations
and mainstream churches. The member
organizations come from all regions in Cameroon
and have joined forces to develop common
strategies against systemic problems of hunger,
poverty, and social, economic, and
environmental injustice.
With its Trade Justice program, RELUFA seeks to link on one side educational and advocacy activities about the impact of globalization on small producers with on the other side the trade of an alternative product for customers in the U.S. and the E.U.
While raising awareness about the struggles of Cameroonian fruit farmers against a foreign banana export company affiliated with La Fruitiere/Dole Foods Inc., RELUFA is organizing to offer both these farmers as well as American consumers an alternative. Grown by producers who have sustained devastating losses to make place to the plantations of this foreign company, and processed according to Fair Trade standards by two driers groups from the same town, dried pineapple, mango, papaya and banana is now exported to the U.S.
RELUFA is working the driers, and local and worldwide experts to substitute the bottled gas currently used for the dehydrators with a renewable energy source through a simple, low cost biogas installation. The network aims to have at least part of the dehydrators up with this system by the end of 2009.
Partners for Just Trade has been working with RELFUA since 2008. Learn more about RELUFA and the Cameroonian producers here >>
If you are interested in learning more about how to become a Trade Partner, please send us an e-mail.
Bridge of Hope
Bridge of Hope is a member of the World Fair Trade Organization and is a part of the Joining Hands Peru Network which is made up of 14 community groups, churches and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who believe that, in this era of globalization, it is important to work on the international level as well as local to have a real impact on the policies which define the context within which poor and marginalized people live.
Bridge of Hope was formed in 2002 with the goal to work with artisans recommended by the institutions of the Joining Hands Network as persons living in poverty and willing to work in cooperative-style groups as self-sustaining businesses. Bridge of Hope now works with over 15 different artisan groups in various communities in Peru and the organization is a leader in the trade justice movement in Peru.
Partners for Just Trade sprouted from Bridge of Hope's work in Peru in order to expand the market for the artisans' products into the United States and educate North Americans about this alternative model of trade. Learn more about Bridge of Hope and the Peruvian artisans here >>
RELUFA
With its Trade Justice program, RELUFA seeks to link on one side educational and advocacy activities about the impact of globalization on small producers with on the other side the trade of an alternative product for customers in the U.S. and the E.U.
While raising awareness about the struggles of Cameroonian fruit farmers against a foreign banana export company affiliated with La Fruitiere/Dole Foods Inc., RELUFA is organizing to offer both these farmers as well as American consumers an alternative. Grown by producers who have sustained devastating losses to make place to the plantations of this foreign company, and processed according to Fair Trade standards by two driers groups from the same town, dried pineapple, mango, papaya and banana is now exported to the U.S.
RELUFA is working the driers, and local and worldwide experts to substitute the bottled gas currently used for the dehydrators with a renewable energy source through a simple, low cost biogas installation. The network aims to have at least part of the dehydrators up with this system by the end of 2009.
Partners for Just Trade has been working with RELFUA since 2008. Learn more about RELUFA and the Cameroonian producers here >>
If you are interested in learning more about how to become a Trade Partner, please send us an e-mail.