Here are just a few of our valued producers, and a little bit about them and how they have been affected by Fair Trade working. Click on a name to see the full story:
- Brazia - How Fairtrade wages benefit workers
- Khan Family - How Fairtrade premiums pay for workers health care »
- Bijad - How Fairtrade Premiums pay for Micro-credit loans
- Kadir Ensure - How Fairtrade funds micro-credit
- Kitman - Sri Lankan Fair Trade rubber project
- Shymala - Fair trade rubber tapping in South India
- Sameena Nyaz - How Fairtrade Premiums help pay for healthcare
- Gollapalli Nampalli - Organic Cotton Growing in India
- Iramma Ramappa Bangari - Organic Cotton Growing in India
- Mr Babu - Fair Trade pension project for rubber tappers
- Mr. Dadmanabhan - Health insurance from the Fair trade Fund
- Ms. Saradha - An operation paid for by Fair Trade premiums
- Rezwan Waris - How Fair Trade Premiums pay for Micro-credit
- Premavati and other Tsunami Victims - Greentips™ Rubber Band Balls
- Mr Sadasivan - Wedding costs help from Fair Trade premiums in South India
To find out more about the making of Fair Trade Footballs, see our video on YouTube.
» How Fairtrade premiums pay for workers health care
- Khan family – Gaper village, Sialkot
Gaper is a small village outside Sialkot. It is centered on a large banyan tree that provides welcome shade from the sweltering heat. The lush paddy fields surrounding the village are home to numerous tropical birds and water buffalo wallow in mud pools.
The village is very poor, the road is extremely rutted and the few building are single story brick dwellings that house large families. We met the Khan family who had days before been joined by an extra member, a healthy boy. The mother – Mushulcut – is holding her new baby. The baby was delivered at a good hospital in Sialkot where Mushulcut stayed for 24 hrs after giving birth.
The hospital fees and all necessary health care were paid entirely by the Fairtrade welfare scheme. ‘I am very thankful that the hospital was paid for she says, ‘without this we would be in debt’. My last baby was also delivered with the help of the welfare scheme, she was a girl. Now we have a boy we have called him ‘Morcadus’ which means ‘The Holy’.
Mushulcut’s husband, Selferaz, is also keen to say how helpful the welfare scheme has been ‘We are a Fair Trade family’ he smiles.