Saturday, January 23, 2010
Salem's One Fair World - Helping Haitian artisans
Immediate disaster aid is fine and necessary --- but even better to address poverty all the time by helping artisans get a fair price for their work, enabling them to escape aid dependency and to build a better life for themselves. One Fair World, Salem's nonprofit fair trade goods store (474 Court St., OneFairWorld.org) is an important part of that better way. Without a reliable market for their goods, artisans in impoverished countries have no way to provide for themselves:
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