One of my favorite ways to shop for myself, while also helping others at the same time is to shop Fair Trade.
Fair Trade stands for the relationship between the seller and the consumer, and it is a system that ensures that sellers receive adequate pay for their work, and guarentees humane working conditions.
Today I will be featuring one of my favorite Fair Trade companies: Indego Africa
- Partner with cooperatives of female artisans from Rwanda.
- Sell these cooperatives' products at both high end retailers and online.
- Pay a fair wage, including 50% in advance.
- Return 100% of the profits to Indego Africa's ground-breaking educational training programs.
- Partner with Generation Rwanda, a program that provides university scholarships to Rwanda's top students. These students teach classes on economic independence and sustainability to Indego Africa's artisans.
Still curious about how this program works and who it helps? Here is a video from the Indego Africa website featuring one of their artisans speaking about her experience in the Rwandan genocide, and how Indego Africa has helped her and her family...
What a great way to treat yourself or someone you love!
If you want to learn more about Indego Africa and the community you will be supporting when you make a purchase, I will leave you with one more video from their website about this social enterprise and the communties which they help support....