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 funds micro-credit
- Welding Workshop
Kadir Ensure is a welder, he makes security grills and window fencing for peoples homes. He also repairs tools and metal furniture, he is always busy he says because there is always demand for his type of work.
His small workshop is on a busy road so he attracts passing trade as well as having regular customers. He trained as a welder for two years until he was 18. His mother who stitches footballs then took out RS 180,000 loan so that Kadir could start his own welding business. He pays RS 800 a month to rent the shop he works in, the rest of the money he spent on his numerous power tools, compressors and welding plant.
He pays RS 30000 a month to pay of his micro credit loan and still manages to bring home RS 15000 so that his mother can retire from stitching footballs. When his loan has been fully paid of his income will rise considerably.
Kadir points out that without micro credit it would be impossible for him to have opened his workshop, banks would demand a guarantor or property to support a loan, things Kadir’s family do not have. Kadir is looking forward to expanding his business when the loan is paid off, “I enjoy my job and want my business to grow.”