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The Fair Trade Company
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In 1995 Safia established the Fair Trade Company to upgrade the skills of marginalized handicraft and garment producers giving 50% advance payments on orders where needed, providing design and quality control training, and marketing the products in Japan (where they live) and the UK.
Safia and James are responsible for creating sustainable livelihoods for more than 10,000 people and their families in 20 countries using traditional skills and environmentally sensitive production techniques, such as organic cotton in rural areas. Safia is a perpetual motion crusader, with her eyes constantly on her goal: a fairer world. So committed is she to her cause that she took only two days maternity leave following the birth of both her children. PeaceDiviners™ is seeking a venture philanthropist to take over the inflexible bank financing. We would also like to fund strategic business assistance to help make the increasingly higher-profile Fair Trade Company's work sustainable, without having to compromise its principles to generate short-term profits to satisfy venture capitalist requirements. Learn more. |
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make ends meet, Safia and James have invested themselves and their
personal income, re-mortgaged their home, and offered a personal
guarantee against the company's bank borrowings, which commits their
future earnings. Thus they personally act as a cushion to bear the
risks faced by the producer in the marketplace.