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Raise Money Right with Catholic Relief Services and Equal Exchange |
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 In remote villages around the world impoverished family farmers grow the cacao that makes our chocolate. They struggle to make a living, often farming on marginal land, facing natural disasters, fluctuating - mostly low - prices, and political and economic injustice.
Many times, farmers organize co-operatives, frequently with the help of the Church, to obtain land, market their crops, develop their communities and assert their rights.
Catholic Relief Services and Equal Exchange act in solidarity with co-operatives like these and you can too, when you Raise Money Right for your school or church!
Equal Exchange, a Fair Trade organization, makes these commitments to farmers:
- We purchase from co-operatives of small family farmers.
- We pay a fair, stable price, with a guaranteed minimum.
- We maintain long-term, direct relationships with our trading partners.
- We offer affordable, pre-harvest credit.
- We support the co-operatives' economic development and sustainable, environmentally beneficial farming.
When you Raise Money Right:
- You raise money for your school or organization.
- You give farmers the benefits of Fair Trade, including a fair price for their crops.
- You cause Equal Exchange to give a donation to the Catholic Relief Services Fair Trade Fund for every item you purchase.
- Your give your customers delicioius, organic, Fairly Traded cocoa and chocolate.
It doesn't just taste good, it feels good!
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