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At HumanKind Fair Trade, every purchase you make goes far beyond just acquiring a beautiful item—it creates lasting change. By choosing to shop with us, you’re directly supporting artisans and farmers from around the globe, ensuring they receive fair wages, safe working conditions, and the opportunity to improve their communities.
Fair trade isn’t just a label; it’s a commitment to equity and sustainability. When you buy fair trade products, you help break the cycle of poverty by providing dignified work that empowers individuals to build better lives for themselves and their families. The impact of fair trade extends into entire communities, fostering development through education, healthcare, and environmental sustainability initiatives.
Your support also promotes ethical production methods that respect both people and the planet. By choosing fair trade, you stand against exploitative labor practices and environmental degradation, advocating for a world where products are made with care and responsibility.
Shopping at HumanKind means being part of a global movement that values humanity over profit. It’s a small action with a big impact, making a difference in the lives of artisans and farmers across the world. Together, we can create a fairer, more just world—one purchase at a time.
As a non-profit organization, we support skilled artisans around the world by purchasing their handcrafted goods and ensuring living wages, safe working conditions, and equal opportunities for women and minorities. Each item in our shop is made by an artisan who is able to provide for his or her family.
We source handcrafted gifts, apparel, accessories, and home goods from over 30 countries around the world. Since we are not able to regularly visit each of these countries in person, we rely on our network of fair trade enterprises that are working directly with artisans. These organizations ensure that fair trade standards are upheld in the production process and they import the handmade goods to North America so we can easily stock our shop.
HumanKind Fair Trade is also a member of the Fair Trade Federation (FTF), a trade association of North American businesses committed to the principles of fair trade. As a verified FTF member, we uphold the highest standards of fair trade business practices.
1. Create opportunities for economically and socially marginalized farmers and artisans. Fair trade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development achieved through long-term trading partnerships.
2. Develop transparent and accountable relationships with artisans and farmers to ensure that relationships are open, fair, consistent, and respectful.
3. Build capacity of farmers, artisans, and their communities. HumanKind Fair Trade invests time and resources to help producers build their businesses and create sustainable supply chains.
4. Promote fair trade by raising awareness about fair trade, educating customers and producers, and inspiring other businesses to adopt fair trade practices.
5. Pay promptly and fairly by discussing costs and pricing openly and honestly so that producers are able to earn a fair wage.
6. Support safe and empowering working conditions that are free of discrimination and forced labor. Healthy workplaces empower producers to participate in decision-making.
7. Cultivate environmental stewardship by encouraging responsible use of resources and eco-friendly production. HumanKind Fair Trade reduces, reuses, reclaims, and recycles materials whenever possible.
8. Ensure the rights of children by never using exploitative child labor. HumanKind supports children’s right to security, education, and play and respect the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
9. Respect the cultural identity of the farmers and artisans and celebrate diversity. Fair trade products and production methods respect the traditions of the local communities.
