World Fair Trade Day

A simple thing like buying a product has consequences far beyond feeding your family, making you feel good or giving you something new to talk about. Buying a product, whether it's the fruit of one person's labour or the result of super-efficient mechanization is a vote for the organization that provided you with the product.

To you it’s just a banana, just a T-shirt, or just a bar of soap; to a business it's a response to consumer demand, and money in the bank for investors. But poverty, climate change and economic crisis are the result of the products we buy and the businesses we choose to support.

If you buy Fair Trade products, change becomes inevitable. It's not complicated - if it were there wouldn't be so many powerful businesses in the world. You are powerful. You are the change. You already knew that, didn't you?

World Fair Trade Day 09 MAY 09 is a salute to the people and organizations who have dedicated themselves to making Fair Trade what it is today, a solution not an issue. Fair Trade is not just about poverty, it's a solution to poverty, Fair Trade is not just about climate change, it's a solution to environmental degradation and bad practice. Fair Trade is not just about protest, it's about change. Change that’s long overdue.

World Fair Trade Day 09 MAY 09 is dedicated to you and the positive impact you can make in your community, through local and global events, that unite people and opinion, in a voice that can be heard wherever you are, whoever you are. Grassroots to G8.