Archive for the 'Beyond Fair Trade' Category

If you like this website and blog, you have some behind the scenes folks at Catholic Relief Services to thank. Peter Kaizer, Dylan Kinnett and Michelle Harrington, along with other talented folks in the web services department of CRS, have been helping CRS Fair Trade over the past couple of years to improve our [...]

Read the entry: Check out the new crs.org website and resources →

CRS Fair Trade supports the work of basket weavers in northern Ghana, as well as cocoa farmers in the central region of Kumasi. We are saddened to hear some of the very regions the Raise Money Right delegation visited last month are facing unrelenting rains in West Africa that started in July. CRS [...]

Read the entry: Artisans in Ghana face floods →

If you have been touched by the CRS Fair Trade program–enjoyed its products like yummy Divine chocolate, experienced the fun of shopping at a Work of Human Hands sale, or learned how your cup of Fair Trade coffee helps you live out your faith on a daily basis, then you have been touched by [...]

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I, Jackie, would like to turn over the reigns of this blog to Steve for the day. He is the winner of the Raise Money Right chocolate selling contest. He and his mom are on the delegation and have been great members of the team. Steve’s mom is a nurse and [...]

Read the entry: Tap Water Turns the Tide by Steve White →

Lots of our time on this trip is spent in 4WD vehicles traveling from place to place, and we are not even reaching the remotest areas of Ghana where CRS works. The fact is, with the exception of cold showers and occasional electricity outages we are having a rather easy trip, all things considered. Each [...]

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After mass today, the delegation went to visit an orphanage in Tema, outside Accra, run by the Missionaries of Charity, the Religious Order often known through the modest but influential work of Mother Teresa. The orphanage provides comfort, food and medical care to some twenty abandoned children. The Mother Superior of the congregation explained that [...]

Read the entry: The Legacy of Mother Teresa →

More than 2 billion reasons to act now.
A few years ago, after I joined CRS but before I started working with the Fair Trade Program, I was involved in an event at Loyola College here in Baltimore focused on world hunger.  In preparing comments for the event, I wrote that “Hunger is an intrinsic and instrumental evil.” 
I [...]

Read the entry: It Is Hard to Work When You Are Hungry →