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• May 16, 2011 Peruvian Crafters Tour West Coast Peruvian crafters are touring the West Coast to share their stories of how fair trade has helped them.    more   
• May 11, 2011 Fair trade saves lives, families and cultures Fair trade is not charity. Fair trade is not the selling of trinkets. Fair trade is simply this: Artisans who make their products receive living wages for the work they do.    more   
• Aug 19, 2009 Ten Thousand Villages Grows With Fair Trade Ten Thousand Villages has mastered the art of nurturing affluent customers as well as impoverished craftsmen.    more   
• May 19, 2009 Fair trade kids toys from Partners for Just Trade at Chicago Green Festival 2009 Chicagoans attending the 2009 Green Festival at Navy Pier could admire a variety of fair trade children's toys and products displayed at the Partners for Just Trade booth.    more   
• May 5, 2009 Tales of two Peruvians Fair trade practice help the impoverished    more   
• Apr 29, 2009 Celebrating Fair Trade Around the World Peruvian artisans visit Indy    more   
• Nov 19, 2008 Round table discussion on Fair Trade on KWMU PJT's director, Carrie Hawthorne, discussed Fair Trade on St Louis' NPR station, KWMU along with Kellee Sikes of Pioneer Technologies and Rich Howard-Willms of Plowsharing Crafts.    more   
• Sep 9, 2008 PJT director interviewed on KDHX Earthworms, the environmental talk show hosted by Jean Ponzi, on KDHX-St. Louis Community Radio, interviewed PJT's director, Carrie Hawthorne, about Fair Trade and PJT's work. (begins during minute 6)    more   
• Jun 30, 2008 New Fair Trade Bible study available Resource aims to help consumers learn how their purchasing power can impact social and economic justice worldwide    more   
• Jun 20, 2008 Minister ties faith, fair trade in new book Three cents of your $3 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who grew the beans, and this disturbs the Rev. Judy Hoffhine.    more   
• Jun 1, 2008 Geiger sews up the world market fairly It’s tough to run a small business anywhere, especially 13,000 feet high in Peru’s Andes Mountains. But that’s where longtime seamstress and Alexandrian Eleanor Geiger found the elements of business in tact...    more   
• Jan 22, 2008 Artisans gather in Peru to develop new products for U.S. market Partners for Just Trade director backpacks into the Andes for meetings. Along with her backpack, Carrie Hawthorne is carrying a notebook full of ideas around Peru.    more   
• Dec 12, 2007 New Fair Trade Web site launched A non-profit organization related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has launched a Fair Trade Web site aimed at helping disadvantaged Peruvian artisans find a new marketplace for their goods and earn a sustainable wage in return.    more   
• Nov 1, 2007 Partners for Just Trade Welcomes Director, Anticipates Growth in Coming Months Partners for Just Trade (PJT), a local Fair Trade organization that helps Peruvian artisans market their crafts in the US, has hired its first executive director, Carrie Hawthorne. PJT, which recently gained non-profit status, is a Fair Trade organization that promotes social and economic justice...    more   
• Nov 1, 2007 Fair trade preserves traditions, builds communities The fair trade movement has grown significantly in North America in the past five years. In 2002, total sales of fair trade products in North America were approximately $180 million. By 2005, that number had increased by 53%...    more   
• Oct 31, 2007 Clifton woman helps Peruvian artist sell work Ruth Farrell of Clifton spent 10 years in Peru as a Presbyterian Church worker helping native artists and craftspeople form cooperatives and find a market for their goods. She recently saw the results of her work as she and Yody Moran, 30, of Peru - one of the artists she befriended -...    more   
• Oct 18, 2007 A fair advantage: Fair trade as hipster label vs. fair trade as a way of life Yody Moran deftly worked two skeins into a tiny finger puppet shaped like a lion last Wednesday night, before a small group of onlookers at a fair trade store here. Were it not for the opportunity to sell crafts like this at a fair price, she might have remained like other women in her...    more   
• May 1, 2007 Fair trade group names first executive director From a group selling household items in churches, Partners for Just Trade has grown to an organization helping about 200 artisans in Peru.   Now the organization based in the Shaw neighborhood hopes to help even more Peruvians to a better life by enabling them to receive a much bigger...    more   
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