Ikhaya Blog - The big swop - Fair Trade fortnight 1-16 May 2010

Let’s get as many people as we can to swap as much as we can. Get active, challenge your friends and swap your usual stuff – your coffee, tea, bananas, chocolate – even your cotton tee shirt – to Fairtrade stuff.

The more we swap the bigger the impact we make on the lives of small-scale producers in developing countries. With 2bn people living on less than $2 a day - swapping your usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff helps create a better life for the coffee and cocoa growers, tea pluckers, cotton pickers and banana growers and their families. As well as a guaranteed minimum price, the extra Fairtrade Premium empowers growers to invest in the future for their communities and help themselves out of poverty. So get swapping!

Australia’s largest Fair Trade Workplace - NAB (National Australia Bank) – has announced that in addition to its recent big swap to Fairtrade Certified coffee and tea it will soon provide Fairtrade Certified hot chocolate and sugar, both from Jasper Coffee, in all its 800 staff tearooms across the country! That's a massive swap and will directly benefit Fairtrade cocoa famers in the Dominican Republic and Fairtrade sugar farmers in Paraguay.

Whether you’re an everyday hot chocolate lover or a business who wants to reward your staff with an extra sweet tearoom option – making the swap to Fairtrade has never been easier!

Related Link: Republica - 100% Fair Trade Coffee »