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Black History Month...Revisited (Just don’t pack it away in a box for next year) By Tekia Thompson The Storyteller Statue. Mercy, Isn’t she beautiful?  I know that we are several days in to #blackhistorymonth and I haven’t been blowing up my social media pages with all the facts and “did you

Riding the Rapids into the New Year

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In the early 2000’s I unintentionally swam the China Rapids of the Salmon River in Idaho.When I tell that to the people who know the River they gasp and say “Whoa, and you survived”? China Rapids is a difficult series of rapids that has a sequence of whirlpool holes that you want to avoid,

CCF Helps the Association of Craft Producers Survive COVID

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CCF Helps Artisan Group (ACP) Survive COVID Recently I was contacted by my dear friend, Meera Bhatterai, director of the Association for Craft Producers (ACP), regarding a truly perilous situation for over 1000 women artisans in Nepal. Since their founding in 1984 ACP has helped 1000’s of low-income women in Nepal gain access to income,

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Fair Trade Partners Spotlight Series Ganesh Himal Trading believes that if we want the world of trade to change we can’t do it alone and that we are stronger together. So in the spirit of creating a movement for economic justice that will build far into the future we want to spotlight some

Update on Nepal

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  New Shipment, Masks & More Uncharted territory is all we can say! Even the 2015 earthquakes didn’t fully prepare us for this Covid scenario. But we are forging ahead. We thought we might get a shipment out in early July, then as Covid surged in Nepal (see Covid blogpost) it turned to late

Wholesale Partner Spotlight: Global Mamas

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Fair Trade Partners Spotlight Series Ganesh Himal Trading believes that if we want the world of trade to change we can't do it alone and that we are stronger together. So in the spirit of creating a movement for economic justice that will build far into the future

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To all of our amazing friends & customers in the Fair Trade Community! We support you We are in a place of the unknowable in regard to the true impact of the Coronavirus on the Fair Trade community, but trust that together we will get through this. We are a group of forward thinking