Few days ago, they came to explain us how they work and what type of help do they give to people who are in extreme poverty. Moreover, they told us that they have a project called "TARA" in India and in this project they try to support fair trade. Fair trade consists in giving fair salaries to workers who made products in bad working conditions.
Last Friday, some of them came to our school and we had a very interesting conference with a woman who is responsible for the management of the project in India. She answered several questions we made to her, because we wanted to know how are the conditions in a factory in a developing country.
Apart from economical support, the beneficiaries of the programme receive a better education. Moreover, this people are building new health centres for them. They are becoming more environmentally friendly conserving water and avoiding deforestation. Workers can borrow small micro-credits if they need the money to buy a house and things like that.
They support gender equality, and make campaigns against child labour.
The workers have right wages and in this way, they get more confident with themselves.
Taking everything into account, coming up with a conclusion, we think that we have learnt a lot of new things and we are very pleased with their help and the way they explained us the stuff.
Finally, we want to say that we would be very grateful if we could contact with them soon, it has been a really good experience!
If you buy things which have this logo, you will be helping people who work in bad conditions. You will also be contributing in giving them bigger salaries and better working conditions.
Concern yourself!
See you soon.
