Archive for the 'Chocolate' Category

As time touring CRS programs across Ghana wrapped up, our delegation got noticeably excited about meeting the cocoa farmers of Kuapa Kokoo. Although everyone was enthusiastic about all they had seen and learned in the upper west, upper east, and northern regions of Ghana, as we turned toward the Ashanti region, one person summed it [...]

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The Raise Money Right delegation is on its way to Ghana! We had a mostly uneventful trip to Amsterdam and are eager to get on our second leg to Accra, Ghana. “We” are those involved in the Fair Trade chocolate contests that CRS organized last year.
Elizabeth Cole from St. Austin’s Parish in Austin, [...]

Read the entry: Not quite Accra, but we are officially on our way! →

Chocolate is quite a daily habit for many of us in the United States. For a few years now, many advocates such as Global Exchange and the International Labor Rights Fund have called on the chocolate industry to reform its labor practices to better protect children. Reports from the US State Department, the [...]

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The Fair Trade Federation conference last weekend brought dozens of Fair Trade companies and organizations to Washington, D.C. to focus especially on doing the work of Fair Trade. Lots of inspiration and information was passed around, including opening remarks from Fair Trade guru, Paul Myers, new Chair of the International Fair Trade Association. [...]

Read the entry: Excuse me, Your Business Practices are Showing →

A special issue of Sojourners Magazine features Trade Justice and the many ways Christians can help Make Trade Just. Noting that “Our clothes–or coffee, jeans, and virtually everything else we consume–can tell a story” the issue profiles Traidcraft, a church hall organization that is now on the London Stock Exchange, our friends at Divine [...]

Read the entry: Changing the World by Changing the Rules: Go Sojo! →

Thousands of people across dozens of countries use the second Saturday of May to celebrate World Fair Trade Day. What will you do this May 12 to participate?
Here at CRS we are proud sponsors of World Fair Trade Day in the USA! Lots is going on for us all month long, including our staff out [...]

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Up in the Northeast region, CRS has a lot of rockin’ college activists–or what we call ambassadors–for Fair Trade. Amy of Villanova University helped organize a chocolate taste test to build awareness of and commitment to Fair Trade chocolate.
You’ll see in the story that what Amy and her friends did was pretty simple: [...]

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