We hope you can stop by and do some holiday shopping this Saturday, December 21, at the IRTF Fair Trade Holiday Open House, 10am-2pm.
Give your friends and family gifts that support fair trade cooperative businesses that ensure living wages, community investment, and environmental sustainability. These fair trade products are grown and hand-crafted by families who depend on this vital income!
Equal Exchange organic and vegan goodies:
- coffee (7 varieties, including decaf)
- tea (18 varieties: black, green, and herbal)
- chocolate bars (11 varieties: milk, vegan, and dark 55%-92% cacao)
- hot cocoa mix (regular, spicy, dark, maple, vegan)
- baking cocoa
- olive oil from Palestian-Israeli cooperative
Mexico
silver bracelets and earrings with mother of pearl inlay from Nahua Indigenous people of Taxco, Guerrero
Guatemala
beaded ornaments, earrings, necklaces, headbands, and handbags from women artisans around Lake Atitlán. Mercado Global’s cosmetic pouches, wallets, envelope clutches, bucket hats, and scrunchies.
Colombia
tagua nut bracelets, earrings, necklaces
El Salvador
hand-painted wooden ornaments in popular La Palma folk art style from Taller Jesus Obrero in Soyapango, coconut shell bracelets, necklaces, and earrings made by teens and their parents at Cooperativa Jaraguá in Tonacatepeque
Saturday, Dec 21, 10am-2pm at IRTF, 3606 Bridge Ave, Cleveland 44113 (corner of W. 38th St., one block north of Lorain Ave, on the campus of St Patrick Church). Park along Bridge Ave or in the lot at the NE corner of W 38th and Bridge Ave.
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Shop Fair Trade Ohio! We hope you’ll ask your friends and family to support these fair trade vendors this holiday season.
Amani Beads
https://amani-market.square.site/
Canaan Fair Trade
Equal Exchange
Esperanza Threads
https://www.facebook.com/EsperanzaThreads
Global Ties Akron
https://globaltiesakron.org/ at https://www.northsidemarketplace.com/
Holy Land Handcraft Society
https://holyland-handicraft.org/new/en/
IRTF: InterReligous Task Force on Central America
https://www.irtfcleveland.org/
INTO – The Hope Collection
Isla Mujeres Women’s Beading Co-Cop
https://www.facebook.com/IslaMujeresBeadingCoop
Joyce’s Boutique
https://joycesboutiquehairsalon.myshopify.com/
Lavender Project
(no website)
MexicoConectaEnEspanol@gmail.com
One World Shop
https://one-world-shop-cleveland.myshopify.com/
Revy Fair Trade
Santa Rosa Stitches
https://santarosastitches.com/
Shema Global
Silk Road Market
Storehouse Tea
The Market Path
https://themarketpath.com/index.html
Women of the Cloud Forest
https://womenofthecloudforest.com/
World Crafts
https://www.worldcraftskidron.com/
Thank you for supporting fair trade and other alternative trade organizations.
Whether or not you’re able to shop in-person at IRTF on Saturday, please check out these other holiday shopping options that promote the solidarity economy.
-Holiday Shopping Guide from the Fair Trade Federation.
-Ethically made apparel from The Collection, a collaboration of textile manufacturers in North Carolina. When you shop from Collection, you are ensuring that the folks who manufacture the line of ethically made t-shirts, socks and other apparel have quality jobs with voice, agency, and equity. They have developed methods and materials to make products that can last a lifetime. With a goal of zero waste, they cut waste at every step of the manufacturing process. Ignatian Solidarity Network.
-Wrap Up Homelessness: Get your issue of the NEO Coalition for the Homeless newspaper featuring sheets of gift wrapping paper designed by folks with lived experience of homelessness. Available at West Side Market, Upcycle Parts, Mac’s Backs, and 5 Points Coffee & Tea. https://www.neoch.org/wrapuphomelessness
-Ohio Immigrant Alliance. “Telling your story is the secret to survival.” (Houleye Thiam). Ohio Migration Anthology is available through the Ohio Immigrant Alliance: https://www.ohiomigrationanthology.org/ .
