Ballston Spa Fair Trade Steering Committee

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Halloween 2010

Participate in the Fourth Annual Reverse Trick-or-Treating!

On Halloween night, schoolchildren, (& high school/college students, and adults) across the US and Canada will unite to help:

END poverty among cocoa farmers

END abusive child labor in the cocoa industry

PROMOTE Fair Trade

PROTECT the environment

by giving Fair Trade chocolate back to adults…while Trick-or-Treating door-to-door in their communities on Halloween.

The chocolate is attached to a card with information about social and environmental justice issues in the cocoa industry and how buying Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution.

Parents rave about how Reverse Trick-or-Treating transforms Halloween into a meaningful event when youth activists give back to their neighbors and to cocoa growing communities.

Reverse Trick-or-Treating kits are FREE

Thanks to the generous donations of Fair Trade chocolate companies

Equal Exchange, Alter Eco, Sweet Earth, and La Siembra (& others in Canada)

(Participants pay the cost of postage only.)

Participate as an individual or organize your classroom, school, congregation, youth group or social justice organization to participate by distributing multiple kits to participants!

DEADLINE TO REQUEST KITS:

Groups (schools, congregations, youth groups, etc): October 1

Individuals: October 13

Order yours TODAY! We always out long before the deadline!

Join us, and together, we will reach nearly

a quarter million households this year!

Visit www.reversetrickortreating.org for more information!

If you choose not to request a kit, you can still participate by distributing flyers on Halloween! Visit the website for more information.

Looking for Fair Trade Halloween candy to distribute to kids at your door?

Visit https://www.globalexchangestore.org/SearchResults.asp?Cat=263.

Reverse Trick-or-Treating is an initiative launched by the human rights organization Global Exchange in cooperation with Fair

Trade company Equal Exchange and is a collaborative effort of countless children, youth, and adults supported by institutions including nonprofit organizations, faith-based organizations, Fair Trade companies, and schools.

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Halloween 2009

Participate in the Third Annual Reverse Trick-or-Treating!

On Halloween night, schoolchildren, (& high school/college students, and adults) across the US and Canada will unite to help:

END poverty among cocoa farmers

END abusive child labor in the cocoa industry

PROMOTE Fair Trade

PROTECT the environment

by giving Fair Trade chocolate back to adults…while Trick-or-Treating door-to-door in their communities on Halloween.

The chocolate is attached to a card with information about social and environmental justice issues in the cocoa industry and how buying Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution.

Parents rave about how Reverse Trick-or-Treating transforms Halloween into a meaningful event when youth activists give back to their neighbors and to cocoa growing communities.

Reverse Trick-or-Treating kits are FREE

Thanks to the generous donations of Fair Trade chocolate companies

Equal Exchange, Alter Eco, Sweet Earth, and La Siembra (& others in Canada)

(Participants pay the cost of postage only.)

Participate as an individual or organize your classroom, school, congregation, youth group or social justice organization to participate by distributing multiple kits to participants!

DEADLINE TO REQUEST KITS:

Groups (schools, congregations, youth groups, etc): October 1

Individuals: October 13

Order yours TODAY! We always out long before the deadline!

Join us, and together, we will reach nearly

a quarter million households this year!

Visit www.reversetrickortreating.org for more information!

If you choose not to request a kit, you can still participate by distributing flyers on Halloween! Visit the website for more information.

Looking for Fair Trade Halloween candy to distribute to kids at your door?

Visit https://www.globalexchangestore.org/SearchResults.asp?Cat=263.

Reverse Trick-or-Treating is an initiative launched by the human rights organization Global Exchange in cooperation with Fair Trade company Equal Exchange and is a collaborative effort of countless children, youth, and adults supported by institutions including nonprofit organizations, faith-based organizations, Fair Trade companies, and schools.

What is Fair Trade?

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Fair Trade means an equitable and fair partnership between marketers, primarily in North America and Europe, and producers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and other parts of the world. A fair trade partnership works to provide low-income artisans and farmers with a living wage for their work.

Fair Trade in not the same as Free Trade

Fair Trade is an innovative, market-based approach to sustainable development. Fair Trade helps family farmers in developing countries to gain direct access to international markets, as well as to develop the business capacity necessary to compete in the global marketplace. By learning how to market their own harvests, Fair Trade farmers are able to bootstrap their own businesses and receive a fair price for their products. This leads to higher family living standards, thriving communities and more sustainable farming practices. Fair Trade empowers farming families to take care of themselves - without developing dependency on foreign aid.

Direct, Long-Term Relationships
Importers of Fair Trade products and other fairly traded goods endeavor to establish long-term stable relationships with producer groups.
Creating opportunities for producers
A strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development
Transparency and accountability
Transparent management and commercial relations to deal fairly and respectfully with trading partners
Capacity building
Develop producers’ independence. Provide continuity, marketing advice and product development
Fair / living wage
Price agreed upon through dialogue and participation enabling production which is socially just and environmentally sound.
Gender equity
Women’s work is properly valued and rewarded. Women are paid fairly.
No forced child labor
If children participate in the production of goods, it is not at the expense of…
Their education
Their well-being (safe conditions)
Their security
Their play time
Environmental sustainability
Sustainable environmental practices
Responsible methods of production.
Organic, shade grown