Students Promoting Fair Trade

University of Virginia

Creating Conscious Consumers

Make UVA a Fair Trade University!

This spring SPFT will be working on making UVA a Fair Trade University as part of the Fair Trade Towns initiative.

SPFT will use the guidelines for Fair Trade Univerisites followed by schools in the UK. For this guidelines see here:

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get_involved_university.htm

Treat your Valentine to Fair Trade roses this year. Purchasing Fair Trade flowers helps empower women world wide.

Find flowers here.

"For every flower that we are able to sell, a child is able to study. Here in Ecuador, there are so many children that do not study. For this reason, it's very important to buy Fair Trade flowers, because our children are our future."

--Mariana Vasquez, Hoja Verde Flower Farm

Students Promoting Fair Trade is an organization of students from various academic backgrounds committed to promoting the equitable trading of international goods at the University of Virginia and in the greater Charlottesville community. SPFT seeks to educate distributers and consumers about the positive aspects of Fair Trade in order to promote the development of Third World producers.

"The poor have a right to a better life, and the rich have a moral obligation to make this happen."

Archbishop Desmond Tutu