Youth for Fair Trade is a Coventry based project that aims to train 60 young people per year as ambassadors of Fair Trade.
Participants come from varied backgrounds and upon completion of the training will be supported in undertaking their own groundbreaking projects to raise awareness and understanding of the importance of Fair Trade.
Please browse our website to find out more about the project and contact us if you would like to be involved.
For the last three and a half years the Youth for Fair Trade project has worked with 180 young people to help them become advocates of Fair Trade – a movement that has challenged governments, companies and consumers to change the way we think about trade and to ensure that producers receive a fair deal.
Our partner, Y Care International has …
When we think of Fairtrade, we tend to think of it as something that concerns producers and consumers. Producers need to ensure that their raw materials come from an ethical, fairly traded source and consumers need to be sure that they only buy from companies that uphold this commitment.
But it’s not just producers and individual consumers that can get involved …
While fair trade has been most successful in the food industry, the fashion industry has also shown positive signs of responding to the challenges of fair trade in recent years.
The fast-paced fashion world has a seemingly unending consumer appetite for cheap clothing, making the issues of fair tade particularly hard to address. Millions of cotton farmers and textile workers depend …
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