Students Promoting Fair Trade

Creating Conscious Consumers

 
                           
 

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Fair Trade in C-ville

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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

        
                       
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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

   
               
                           
Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an agency of the University. It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs. The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization's contracts, acts or omissions."