Marketplace partners
A number of organizations partner with the Enough for Everyone Global Marketplace at large churchwide gatherings of the PC(USA). They are excellent sources of responsibly made products, whether you are looking to purchase one gift now or coordinate a holiday bazaar in the fall. Please return to these organizations and allow them to become primary sources for your gifts and products. Whether you are buying for yourself or for others, your purchases benefit not only the people who use and enjoy the items, but also, perhaps most importantly, the people around the world who make them — and who often rely on our support to live their lives in dignity rather than poverty.
Association for the Protection of the Environment (Egypt)
A project of Hands Along the Nile
U.S. contacts: Nimet and Suzan Habachy
Phone: (212) 570-0497
The Association for the Protection of the Environment improves the lives of indigenous groups of garbage collectors near Cairo, Egypt, and helps protect the environment, focusing on income generation, recycling, health care, literacy, leadership training, mobilization of community resources, advocacy for women and girls and networking in the areas of environment and development.
Atfaluna Crafts (Palestine)
A project of the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children
Atfaluna’s crafts production and vocational training units address the needs of deaf persons who have never had the chance to go to school. With no literacy or job skills, the majority of deaf women and men live well under the poverty line, dependent upon charity or help from their families. The Atfaluna Vocational Training Unit offers the opportunity for the deaf to learn woodworking, upholstery, picture framing, sewing, traditional embroidery, furniture finishing, furniture painting, fabric weaving, rug weaving or pottery making. In addition to learning a trade, trainees also learn to do simple mathematics and learn to read and write. Upon completion of training courses, graduates are placed in community workshops or businesses or in Atfaluna’s Craft Production Unit.
Café Justo (Mexico)
Café Justo is a coffee grower cooperative based in Salvador Urbina, Chiapas, Mexico that markets organic coffee which is grown, harvested and marketed in the spirit of justice. Its mission is to address root causes of immigration economics, by connecting coffee growers directly with coffee drinkers. Growers own every aspect of the business from the cultivation, to the processing of the green beans, to the roasting, packing, shipping and exporting. The coffee is grown in Chiapas and transported to Agua Prieta, Sonora, where it is roasted, packaged and exported directly to customers in the United States.
CAM Cabin Crafts (United States, Appalachian region)
A project of the Coalition for Appalachian Ministry
CAM Cabin Crafts sells crafts from more than 115 Appalachian crafters and includes items such as dolls, quilts, food products, woodcrafts, toys and Christmas ornaments. CAM Cabin Crafts offers low-income crafters from the Appalachian region a place to sell their homemade items. The store, strategically located in a log cabin near the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, provides a welcome source of income for people who live in the area and fosters economic independence for the people of Appalachia.
Shop online through CAM Cabin Crafts or SuperMarketCoop.
Creations of Hope (Haiti)
The mission of Creations of Hope is two-fold: to create a U.S. market for Haitian hand-made arts and crafts, and to provide funds for the Haitian Women’s Micro-Finance project. Profits from the sale of Haitian products are gived to the loan pool for the micro-finance project (in the future, when the micro-finance project is self sustaining, profits will be gived to other rural cooperative projects). A new organization based in Charleston Atlantic Presbytery, Creations of Hope was incorporated in May 2009, with capital invested by two Americans and two Haitians. Products are purchased directly from the artisans in Haiti and exported to the United States where they are sold online, in retail stores and at Haitian Markets hosted by churches, organizations and individuals.
Eighth Wonder
Eighth Wonder is a Fair Trade enterprise dedicated to supporting the indigenous cultures of northern Luzon, Philippines and their centuries-old tradition of community rice farming. As the U.S.-based marketing partner for the Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project, Eighth Wonder is working directly with the farmers to develop and sell their exceptional heirloom rice as a gourmet rice in North America. By building a sustainable and culturally sound economic enterprise, the farmers are generating a solid, livable income for themselves and their families. Simultaneously, they are helping to preserve their historic, UNESCO designated high-elevation rice terraces. Shop Eighth Wonder’s online store or call direct for your holiday bazaar orders.
Equal Exchange (Global)
Founded in 1986, Equal Exchange is the oldest and largest for-profit, 100 percent Fair Trade company in the United States. The PC(USA)’s partner in the Presbyterian Coffee Project, Equal Exchange offers organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, chocolate bars and snacks produced by democratically run farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the United States. Equal Exchange’s mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through its success, the contribution of worker cooperatives and fair trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.
Shop the Equal Exchange Interfaith Program Web store.
Esperanza en Acción (Nicaragua)
Esperanza en Acción ("Hope through Action") is a fair trade organization based in Nicaragua that provides Nicaraguan artisans with the tools to lift themselves out of poverty by offering technical assistance and quality consultation in addition to education and practice in calculating a fair wage. Esperanza en Acción also works to connect these artisans to local and international fair trade markets so that they receive a living wage for their work. Additionally, we strive to educate people of the “First World” to empower us all to help transform the global economic system into one that is fair for ALL people.
Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (Hmong)
Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries makes available Hmong cross stitch and reverse appliqué stitchery and other Southeast Asian refugee crafts. Some crafts have PC(USA) and PW logos.
Phone: (559) 487-1500
Ghana Crafts
Ghana Crafts is a project engaged in by women and young girls in Ghana who make and sell different kinds of crafts to make their living with the proceeds.
Contact: The Rev. Dinah Abbey-Mensah, former missionary in residence, PC(USA) World Mission.
Phone: +1-233 91 28052
Girls at Risk (Pakistan)
A project of the Presbyterian Education Board in Pakistan
The Girls at Risk Project provides vocational opportunities to girls at risk in Pakistan. Vocational skill building includes commercial fabric painting, stitching, embroidery, tie dye (silk scarves) and cotton tote bags (with the Presbyterian Women logo). The goal is to improve the social status of women in Pakistan through support, education and training of females to develop and better their local communities.
For more info or to order contact Mrs. Veeda Javaid.
Import Peace (Palestine)
Import Peace seeks to foster economic development and growth opportunities for olive oil from the West Bank to ease poverty and hardship. Net proceeds are reinvested in Palestine for olive tree plantings and local development projects which currently include microloans for women, college scholarships for olive farmer children and for Ahli Arab Hospital, the only Christian hospital in Gaza. Products include olive oil, soap and zatar (a Middle Eastern spice).
Mayan Hands (Guatemala)
Mayan Hands is a small fair trade organization, founded in 1989, which works with more than 200 women organized in 12 cooperative groups. These talented weavers produce beautiful, high quality textiles which Mayan Hands is proud to market. Earning a fair return for their work empowers the weavers and allows them to feed their families, send their children to school and harbor hopes for a better future.
View Mayan Hands online catalog.
Original T-Bag Designs (South Africa)
Original T-Bag Designs is a collective of artists who live in an informal settlement in Hout Bay, South Africa. With recycled tea bags as their canvases they are painting themselves out of poverty. The money earned by the artists helps to support a community of 125 people.
Shop the Original T-Bag Designs Web store.
OrganiPharm (United States)
OrganiPharm is a 100 percent grower-owned company dedicated to producing high quality, environmentally sustainable botanical products for the health conscious consumer. OrganiPharm’s mission is to make medicinal plant production a viable economic option for the small farmer while at the same time providing premium quality natural products to both consumers and researchers. It was formed as an outgrowth of a series of Small Business Innovation Research grants from USDA Rural Development and the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Products include organic dietary supplements, soaps, skin care products, honey and hand tied brooms and other products from member farms in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama.
Shop online through OrganiPharm or SuperMarket Co-op.
Partners for Just Trade (Peru, Cameroon, Egypt)
Partners for Just Trade is a nonprofit, Christian organization that builds partnerships between artisans and producers living in extreme poverty and conscientious consumers. We address root causes of poverty through fair trade sales, education, solidarity and a commitment to trade justice.
More than 15 artisan groups — with more than 200 producers — work with PJT. The fair wages received by the artisans enables them to afford food, shelter and medicine for their families, to educate their children and to reclaim personal dignity so they may assert their economic, political and social rights.
Today PJT is a recognized player in the national fair trade movement, providing superior fair trade products, upholding strong, transparent relationships with its producer partners and educating consumers about the benefits of fair trade.
Morris Forks Crafts (Appalachia)
Contact: Elaine Stamper
Phone: (606) 398-2194
PalCraft Aid (Palestine)
Founded by the Rev. Elizabeth Knott and rooted in the peace and justice work of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) since 1993, PalCraft Aid is an all-volunteer, nonprofit ministry of compassion, hope and healing for Palestinians. By purchasing skillfully wrought olivewood and embroidered handicrafts, you help Pal Craftaid provide much needed income to artisans who carry on the handicraft skills of their people in the face of an oppressive military occupation. Pal Craftaid supports families, schools, elderly groups and community cooperatives in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
U.S. contacts: Kirsten Johnson, email or (248) 486-5106
SuperMarket Coop (United States and Mexico)
A project of the Rural Coalition
SuperMarketCoop was designed to promote a people-to-people vision of trade. It is a collaborative effort of rural, community-based agricultural cooperatives to employ technology in the preservation of their communities, cultures and farming professions. By shopping through the online catalog customers can connect with farmers and rural communities to buy handmade products directly from producers. Products include a wide variety of food products, personal care products, home furnishings and crafts.
Shop the SuperMarketCoop Web store.
SERRV International
Enrich your life with beautiful handcrafted items and change the world at the same time. SERRV offers a variety of fairly traded handcrafts and foods from artisan and farmer partners in 35 countries. One of the first alternative trade organizations in the world, SERRV has worked on behalf of the world’s artisans and farmers for 60 years.
Upavim Artesania: Unidas Para Vivir Mejor UPAVIM (Guatemala)
UPAVIM is a nonprofit women’s cooperative in Guatemala City dedicated to the sale of fair trade crafts. All profits from UPAVIM’s crafts sales go toward the empowerment of women and community service programs.
Women’s Bean Project (United States)
Since 1989, the Women’s Bean Project, a nonprofit business, has helped women break the cycle of chronic poverty and unemployment by teaching workplace competencies within the context of two active businesses: production and sales (wholesale and retail) of a wide variety of signature soup and gourmet food mixes and a catering service. Our goal is to assist women living in poverty to stabilize their lives, improve their self-esteem and ultimately move toward long-term employment and self-sufficiency.
Shop the Women’s Bean Project Web store.
Zuni Gourmet Peanuts Zuni Gourmet Peanuts (United States)
Zuni Gourmet Peanuts is an enterprise of Presbyterian Homes and Family Services Inc. Zuni Presbyterian Homes in Virginia is a residential community ministry providing nurture, healing and encouragement for adults with mental retardation who may otherwise be homeless or hopeless. The Zuni Peanut Sheltered Workshop promotes independence and self-reliance while providing employment to residents. Under close supervision, adults master skills including the meaningful work of cooking, weighing and packaging delicious peanuts.
Shop the Zuni Peanuts web store.
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Robin, thank you for bringing this to our attention. It appears our link above sends you to a .com website when actually it should be a .org website. The correct address is http://www.originaltbagdesigns.org/. We will update the link. Thanks again!
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I'm trying to find the Original T-bag Designs coasters. The website looks very commercial, not fair trade, and I don't see any mention of any of the South African T-bag art products. Can you help?