Your Dollars at Work
How far does your dollar go? A pack of gum, if you’re lucky? When you purchase through CRS Fair Trade, your dollar goes a lot further.
Photo: Phil Laubner/CRS; A scarf woven by a Nepalese artisan from ACP.
Photo: ACP; Lubhu Weaving Producers
When you purchase products through CRS Fair Trade, you help ensure that vulnerable farmers and artisans around the world are receiving a fair wage for their hard work. You ensure that they are working in safe and healthy conditions. Fair trade also gives special consideration for the most vulnerable, like women and children, as well as the environment by promoting sustainable and eco-friendly practices. So your dollar is really going far!
But your purchase through CRS Fair Trade doesn’t just ensure fair and just work. In a major way, your dollar is helping farmers and artisans around the world grow their businesses despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Rebuilding Nepal
Photo: Manushi; The new Annapurna Jewelry workshop.
In Nepal, the CRS Fair Trade Fund contributed $10,500 to Annapurna Producers’ Jewelry and the Lubhu Weaving Producers to rebuild their artisan workshops after suffering extensive damage from the earthquake in 2015. Both workshops have recently been completed. After experiencing so much loss and hardship, these Nepalese artisans now can begin to recover and rebuild what was lost. They can return to work in a safe environment and will be able to provide for themselves and their families.
Photo: Manushi; The Annapurna Jewelry producers receive the key to their new workshop.
Over a year after the earthquake, CRS continues its relief efforts in Nepal by helping affected communities build sturdier homes, by training workers and teaching valuable new skills.
