Vote in the Fair Trade Photo Contest June 27-July 9

	Entry # 1 Credit: Doug Dirks Inaq Mahnun, an artisan member at Lombok Pottery Centre, making pottery just outside her house in Banyumulek village, Lombok, Indonesia (February 21, 2013). Photo taken during 2013 Ten Thousand Villages learning tour to Indonesia.
	Entry #2 Credit: Baskets of Africa A basket weaver in a village outside Bolgatanga, Ghana, West Africa prepares straw to complete her baskets. Fair trade income from basket weaving provides her the financial means to send her grandchildren to school and better the lives of future generations.
	Entry #3 Credit: Baskets of Africa Weaving baskets and receiving fair trade prices for them provides a path to success for many women in Northern Ghana. This weaver skillfully completes the sturdy rim of a market basket made from Kinkahe straw.
	Entry #4 Credit: Baskets of Africa Starting a basket is one of the most difficult steps. This weaver outside Bolgatanga, Ghana, West Africa is creating a perfect base for a beautiful market style basket. Most weavers are subsistence farmers who weave to earn a sustainable wage income when they are not working on their crops.
	Entry #5 Credit: Baskets of Africa Celebrations and ceremony are a key part of life in rural Northern Ghana, West Africa. After a visit from our fair trade buyer, weavers may sing and dance for many hours to mark the occasion. Village life normally doesn’t include an opportunity to earn money – so selling baskets for sustainable wage, fair trade prices truly transforms the lives of a weaver’s family.
	Entry #6 Credit: TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles This Lao artisan spins organic silk yarn for Mulberries, a World Fair Trade Organization member. Her village, in Xiang Khouang province, is in an area heavily bombed during the Vietnam War. Small-scale, village-based silk production brings regular income to women and supports traditions almost lost during the war.
	Entry #7 Credit: TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles Twisting organic silk yarn strengthens it for weaving. This artisan in Xiang Khouang province, northeast Laos, spins organic silk yarn for Mulberries, a World Fair Trade Organization member. Keeping yarn production in the villages supports rural women, their families, communities and traditions.
	Entry #8 Credit: Canaan Fair Trade This Palestinian farmer’s son holds an olive, their national treasure. Fair trade has made olive farming a sustainable living again, even in a conflict region. Canaan Fair Trade farmers get paid at the olive press, so they can put their next crop in the ground, put the addition on their house, educate their children, live their lives. This child could receive one of 10 full university scholarships that Canaan awards every year to farmers’ children.
	Entry #9 Credit: Canaan Fair Trade Fair trade is the world equivalent of knowing your local farmer. You can stay with our farmers, pick their olives, share their meals and lives. Olive harvest is a family affair and these Palestinian children will have good memories of the harvest like their parents and grandparents do, even in this war-torn region. These children will benefit from the financial stability and food security of a long-term fair trade partnership with Canaan Fair Trade.
	Entry #10 Credit: Rising Tide Fair Trade/Sasha Exports Children look on at their mother’s work a jewelry workshop in Karamul, Orissa in India. The jewelry artisans make hand beaten and dhokra beads, traditionally for tribals, but now for the urban market. They use brass and copper and every bead is shaped individually. The women fashion the jewelry and use cotton threads and glass beads to make lovely and distinctive necklaces, bangles and earrings.
	Entry #11 Credit: Blessing Basket The Blessing Basket Project has a proven financial model that graduates it’s participants out of poverty within three years. Joe went from homeless to a college student through our program and no longer needs to weave baskets to support himself. In 2012 he officially graduated from the program.
	Entry #12 Credit: A Fair Trade World The Burmese lady has finished college. Since she cannot find a job, she makes belts, bracelets, necklaces, and bags of watermelon seeds. She tries every day to create a living by getting a Fair price for her creative work.
	Entry #13 Credit: A Fair Trade World The Burmese Karen woman lives on the border of her homeland, in western Thailand. She is preparing rice for her family after a long day of weaving cotton.
	Entry #14 Credit: Kyle Freund Children of coffee farmers at the Fairtrade certified Fero Cooperative in Yirgalem, Ethiopia, gather as their parents are interviewed by coffee roasters collecting stories and delivering Fairtrade Premium funds to the cooperative.
	Entry #15 Credit: Kyle Freund Birhanu Kabeto is a member of Fero Cooperative in Yirgalem, Ethiopia, A Fairtrade certified group. He has been coffee farming for over 40 years and works the land with his wife and six children. It takes him about 3 hours to fill his basket with coffee cherries.
	Entry #16 Credit: Shared Interest Ugandan fair trade tea co-operative, Mpanga used their loan from Shared Interest Society, the world’s only 100% fair trade lender, to supply fertiliser to their 1,000 farmer members. The fertiliser has had a fantastic result, increasing yields, quality and income for the farmers and their families.
	Entry #17 Credit: Celia Grace Wedding Dresses & Accessories This is heirloom silk being woven on a traditional no-electricity loom in a rural rice growing village in Cambodia. The exquisite craft preservation silk is then used for wedding dresses made by a fair trade women’s sewing group in Cambodia.
	Entry #18 Credit: Dsenyo Dsenyo works in partnership with the Mwayiwathu HIV+ Support Group in Ndiwasa Village, Malawi, providing income generating activities. The group is comprised of members like EVELYN MAULANA, a young Muslim woman, mother of two and HIV+. Evelyn handcrafts fair trade gift items for Dsenyo, here sewing a mpande seed to finish a flower ornament. Dsenyo is a proud member of the Fair Trade Federation.
	Entry #19 Credit: Dsenyo Nora Meya has been a member of Mwayiwathu HIV+ Support Group since her husband died of AIDS. Through Dsenyo’s partnership with Mwayiwathu, Nora handcrafts fair trade gift items for Dsenyo. Here she is making chord out of sisal for ornaments. Dsenyo is a proud member of the Fair Trade Federation.
	Entry #20 Credit: Curt Fissel “Future Farmers: The Living Fruit of the Fair Trade Harvest”. The children of interfaith and fair trade coffee cooperative Mirembe Kawomera (translation “Delicious Peace”), in Uganda during filming of *Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean.*
	Entry #21 Credit: Lucuma Designs Farmers in high in the Andes of Peru, near Lake Titicaca, begin the harvest season. To supplement their farming income, women knit small toys, such as Lucuma Designs finger puppets.
	Entry #22 Credit: Lucuma Designs Having just performed a special welcome dance, these puppet knitters laugh together. The cooperative has gathered to meet with the US team from Lucuma Designs, learn new designs, and collect their yearly bonuses. Lucuma Designs is proud to work with almost 150 women knitters.
	Entry #23 Credit: Lucuma Designs The Peruvian gourd carving tradition dates back thousands of years. Gourds are carved and colored with fire to create rich designs. Here, a mother and her daughter smile for the camera as she carves a beautiful jungle ornament. Lucuma Designs proudly supports the work of seven gourd workshops in Peru.
	Entry #24 Credit: Lucuma Designs Peruvian gourd carver Lizzet proudly shows off her Birdie gourd boxes, designed in close collaboration with Lucuma Designs, as her daughter smiles shyly for the camera. Lizzet’s story is a favorite for Lucuma, who has watched her family’s workshop grow to employ nine carvers and upgrade to have running water and plumbing.
	Entry #25 Credit: Lucuma Designs For most women in the Andes of Peru, knitting is a secondary job. They first keep busy attending their potato, quinoa or barley crops. Knitting empowers these women, many single moms, within their household and community by providing income and flexibility to watch their kids and tend their farms.
	Entry #26 Credit: Lucuma Designs In an agricultural community in the highlands of Peru, where much of life revolves around harvest season, knitting is an active tradition. Many women knit finger puppets to supplement their incomes and provide for their families. Here a knitter pauses from her work while her darling daughter indulges on a lollipop.
	Entry #27 Credit: Miguel Zamora Fair Trade farm worker at the end of the day at a Fair Trade coffee farm in Southern Minas Gerais, Brazil. The farm worker was returning from his work on the coffee fields that day.
	Entry #28 Credit: Miguel Zamora Erik from United Farm Workers and Miguel met with coffee pickers at a Fair Trade farm in Manizales, Colombia, to talk about what workers expected from Fair Trade. The workers invited those 2 to join them for breakfast in the field. After eating together, surrounded by coffee trees, one of the workers took this picture.
	Entry #29 Credit: Katie Barrow Angela Camposeco, a member of the CODECH Coffee Cooperative, dries her beans on the roof of her home in the highlands of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. A proud grandmother at 49, she produces coffee with her husband while teaching her daughter and grandchildren the trade.
	Entry #30 Credit: Katie Barrow Rosemberg Morales, a proud father of five, is Secretary of the Triunfo Verde Coffee Cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico. Rosemberg began picking coffee when he was nine, working on farms in the region until he was able to buy his own land at the age of 30. Although he did not study past the second grade, he has help several highly-regarded leadership positions within in the cooperative, including delegate, tour guide and treasurer.
	Entry #31 Credit: Katie Barrow A young girl in the Monte Rey region of Chiapas beams at the unique sight of visitors to her home. Her father is a member of the Triunfo Verde Coffee Cooperative, which has helped connect this remote region to the larger communities by improving local roads and bridges.
	Entry #32 Credit: Twigz Creations This photo is taken in Nairobi Kenya where Twigz works with Robert. In this photo Robert is showing how he makes his beautiful soapstone bowls. Robert is from the Kissi Highlands in Kenya, 25 years old and married with one child. After high school Robert underwent training at a college for crafts, and as a result spent 18 months designing.
	Entry #33 Credit: WorldFinds The women artisans at the Taja-8 artisan group, working on behalf of Tara Projects in Pataudi, Haryana, India, hand bead WorldFinds earrings. The group is a mix of Hindu and Muslim women, and one of the more senior women commented “Our blood is all the same – why should we not all get along and work together happily!”
	Entry #34 Credit: WorldCrafts The WorldCrafts Fair Trade Tour to India March 4-15, 2013 traveled to visit 8 artisan groups throughout India. The travellers visited the artisan group ConneXions in Kolkata, India. These women make beautiful sari products. Their work is preventing them from being victims of sex trafficking.
	Entry #35 Credit: Women of the Cloud Forest Pewter 21 in Nicaragua, is a recycled aluminum casting facility and retail shop. WCF’s artisan partner, 33-year old Osmar Perez, runs the business with five young men and his mother. Osmar oversees the casting process and his mother attends to the local customers. Everytime WCF visits, his mother can be seen constantly polishing the pieces to make them shine.
	Entry #36 Credit: Manos Zapotecas Sometimes watching the artisans weave can be magical, such as a feeling of awe in this shot of Andres at his loom. This photo was taken in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico, on a trip to visit wonderful weaving families.
	Entry #37 Credit: The Leakey Collection Taken in Kenya by Leakey staff to meet the artisans. Although visitors didn’t speak the same language as the artisans, both understood each other in a common quest to make a better world. What a wonderful experience to see just how impactful fair trade is to these women in rural Africa. Their smiles say it all!
	Entry #38 Credit: Venture Imports When Teresa was widowed 13 years ago, she wondered how she would care for her six children. Then she found a job sanding stone carvings. The stones are chopped into shape by men using machetes. Then Teresa and her friends wet-sand the carvings until they’re smooth to the touch.
	Entry #39 Credit: KUSIKUY Dona Maria Mamani, a Fair Trade knitter from Arani, Bolivia, shares a smile during her weekly knitting meeting. The group, La Imillia, is a Bolivian registered NGO that has been working in Fair Trade knitting since 1995. Recognized by the Smithsonian for their skill and quality, this group creates income for farm women.
	Entry #40 Credit: JUSTA This photo was taken at another one of JUSTA’s women’s collectives in San Juan on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. The ladies of this collective use 100% natural cotton and dyes made in house- to make one scarf takes a full week! This photo portrays the unity, hard efforts and family involvement of their collective.
	Entry #41 Credit: Michelle Ovalle A textile artisan in Rajasthan, India, cleanses block-printed fabric for use in Handmade Expressions’ eco-chic bags and accessories.
	Entry #42 Credit: HandCrafting Justice Two women artisans from different generations display their embroidery work during a 2012 site visit. They stand in their reconstructed home, originally destroyed in the devastating 2010 earthquake.
	Entry #43 Credit: Greenola Style The next generation of fair trade. Our newest member of Greenola Style’s Utala, women’s knitting cooperative. Cochabamba, Bolivia
	Entry #44 Credit: The Blessing Basket Project Majada Katoon is a Blessing Basket Artisan from Bangladesh. For more than 20 years she wove for a middle man who paid her so poorly she could eat only one meal a day. After weaving for The Blessing Basket less than 3 years, she used her Prosperity Wages to lease an acre of land where she now grows more rice than she could ever eat. When we asked her how it felt knowing she will never go hungry again. This was her reaction.
	Entry #45 Credit: Global Mamas Molly takes a break from a busy day of sewing with her employee. Molly and her 5 person staff are always busy on the small balcony of her apartment, making the most of her space. Molly is the full-time caregiver to her niece and dreams of opening her own shop.
	Entry #46 Credit: Global Goods Partners The women artisan group Global Goods partners with in Afghanistan named Kandahar Treasure. Note the strength women pull from each other while creating fair trade products in groups.
	Entry #47 Credit: Global Crafts This woman had finished her baskets and started a new beer basket while waiting to be paid.
	Entry #48 Credit: Lisa McSain At the entrance to Keya Palm Handicrafts in Agailijara Bangladesh, Villages representatives were welcomed by women artisans headed by Bella Roi (blue sari), showering visitors with marigold petals and rose water while veiling them with fragrant incense.
	Entry #49 Credit: Equal Exchange In January 2013 Equal Exchange staff visited with the coffee farmers of CIRSA in Chiapas, Mexico, once again. During a break between meetings and traveling Phyllis Robinson of Equal Exchange got to talk with some of the kids in the village they were visiting.
	Entry #50 Credit: Mary Hensley The Amganad community gathers at the ceremonial terrace of elder Anna Habiling in Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines to open the harvesting season for *tinawon* rice. The growing of traditional varieties of rice has been at the center of their culture for generations.
	Entry #51 Credit: Swahili African Modern In September 2012, Swahili representatives visited Matinyani, in Kenya’s semi-arid Machakos region, and met with members of a group of 200 rural women who weave sisal into handbags and home décor accessories. Some women multi-task by walking, singing and weaving simultaneously.
	Entry #52 Credit: Sustaining Cultures The Vida Nueva cooperative is comprised of 14 women in the community of Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico. The cooperative hand makes woolen rugs from their own hand carded,hands-on, and naturally dyed yarns. No synthetic dyes are used to produce these beautiful colors.
	Entry #53 Credit: dZi, Inc. Two Artisans sit in a sunny corner and add finishing touches on dZi’s hand-felted Wild Woolie Sunshine Birdhouses. The birdhouses are made using traditional felting techniques and all natural materials, including sheep’s wool, bamboo, and hemp fibers. This brightly lit, well organized production center provides a positive, safe, and healthy environment.
	Entry #54 Credit: Sinko Corp Joy abounds as Anna Marie Stauss, sitting next to Sabina Bibi (the head knitting coach), is overwhelmed with love and gratitude for the opportunity to finally meet some of the women who’s names and faces she has become so familiar with over the last 5 years.
	Entry #55 Credit: Shea Yeleen Shea butter is produced by poor, rural women in sub-Saharan Africa, like this producer in Mali. Shea Yeleen helps cooperative members to improve their business practices, and purchases shea butter at fair trade prices for natural skin care products.
	Entry #56 Credit: Dsenyo Dsenyo works with Umoja, a women’s cooperative, at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi. They are preserving traditional basket weaving techniques learned in their homelands by crafting products for modern day markets. Being resourceful out of necessity, these women have learned to dismantle and use their food rations bags to make their baskets.
	Entry #57 Credit: Seyva Weaving a beautiful table runner in Assam, India.
	Entry #58 Credit: Canaan Fair Trade Khadir Khadir is one of the youngest Canaan Fair Trade farmers but is leader of his cooperative and was elected to the Board of the Palestine Fair Trade Association. From sleeping on the floor of an Israeli plastics factory at age 16, he is now making a good living in traditional Palestinian farming, and is expanding his organic land.
	Entry #59 Credit: Belart- Bello Arte Each unique motive on these weavings tells the story and lineage of their culture that is passed down from women to women. Doña Dolores, a proud Wayuu grandmother is one of the women we work with in the desert of the Guajira region, promoting sustainable sources of income, opening markets for their products, in keeping with thousand year old traditions.
	Entry #60 Credit: Pure Art Earthen hands of fair trade cradle distinctive Maasai beadwork along the Tanzanian/Kenyan border at Ololosokwan, representing a colourful landscape of a proud semi-nomadic people, engaged in talented artistry and a respectful exchange that offers hope for improved tribal life.
	Entry #61 Credit: BeadforLife BeadforLife’s Ox-plow initiative in Northern Uganda gives plows to small groups of women, enabling them to expand their farms, earn seven times what they did before and eventually pay back the cost of the plow.
	Entry #62 Credit: Baskets of Africa Zulu men in South Africa weave at home on their traditional lands to earn as much income as they wish. If they couldn’t earn income at home, they would be forced to leave their families behind to seek employment in mines and factories.
	Entry #63 Credit: Ayindisa Ayindisa Zoko recycled basket weaving group leader with weavers under the shade of a tree, discussing the product with Ayindisa founder, Chris Gay, Outside Bolgatanga, Ghana, March 2013.
	Entry #64 Credit: Mira Fair Trade “Bandit Queen”, a customer, got a Mira block printed scarf as a gift and was so excited about this scarf that she modeled it.
	Entry #65 Credit: Sgt. Ken Scar Based on ARZU’s success in implementing economic and community development programs the governor of Bamyan requested ARZU take the lead on building a new community park and playground. The park acts a place for the community to engage and meet together.
	Entry #66 Credit: MayaWorks Angela, from Comalapa, Guatemala, spins thread to prepare it for the loom. Angela has been weaving since she was a girl starting with small tapestries and improving her skills until she was able to create huipiles (traditional woven shirts) like the one she is wearing in this photo.
	Entry #67 Credit: Alter Eco Anapqui Quinoa Cooperative. Quinoa farmer sorting crops in the Altiplano, Bolivia.
	Entry #68 Credit: Acacia Creations Ladies from Uganda and Kenya meet in Kisumu, western Kenya to roll paper beads. It’s a time to work and catch up with old friends.
	Entry #69 Credit: Mata Traders Tara Laxmi weaves cotton textiles on a hand loom. She is a 12-year member of her cooperative in Nepal, where her daughter also works as a production supervisor. This is a happy time for Tara’s family, as both her daughters were married this year!
	Entry #70 Credit: sweetriot sweetriot supports fair trade and sourcing exclusively in Latin America, which directly supports a better life for farming families through fair prices and direct trade. sweetriot deeply values its relationships with cacao farmers and understand the importance of maintaining these valuable connections.
	Entry #71 Credit: sweetriot A riot never happens alone. sweetriot’s mission is to create a movement to change the world through fair trade, organic dark chocolate products. sweetriot’s partnerships with Latin American farmers are the foundation of its commitment to fair trade.
	Entry #72 Credit: Murphy Woodhouse The backstrap loom is integral to the Maya culture. Elicia Molina and Anciona Lopez learned to use these looms as children. Today, as members of MayaMam Weavers cooperative in Cajola, Guatemala, they use their skills under the tenets of Fair Trade, with regular work and fair wages.
	Entry #73 Credit: Ruth Roberts At the busy Jacobs Well fair trade fashion production house in Bangalore, India, there is always time to share a joke! Kanchana is one of the newest members of the team and brightens everyone’s day with her smile and infectious giggle.
	Entry #74 Credit: Ruth Roberts Snap! It’s an orange-and-turquoise kind of day for Kalaivani and Kanchana at the Jacobs Well fair trade fashion production house in Bangalore, India, where sustainable employment and a focus on personal development empower women from diverse backgrounds across the city.
	Entry #75 Credit: Ruth Roberts Manjula concentrates on stitching a skirt at the Jacobs Well fair trade fashion production house in Bangalore, India, established to employ young people who want to acquire training, skills and experience in a creative and caring environment, and empowering them with confidence and dignity!
	Entry #76 Credit: Michelle Ovalle Handmade Expressions’ Aileen Hagert (right) and Rashmi Dhariwal (left) get colleague Ruchi Agrawal (center) into the Holi spirit in Jaipur, Rajasthan, during India’s Hindu festival of colors, a lively annual tradition to welcome spring.
	Entry #77 Credit: Michelle Ovalle Children in a small village outside of Barmer, Rajasthan in India, where one of Handmade Expressions’ block-printing artisan communities is based.
	Entry #78 Credit: Michelle Ovalle Anita is a needlepoint artisan for the Unique community, a small, talented group that specializes in stitching Handmade Expressions’ bags and other items. Fair Trade helps Unique artisans earn living wages and work in a safe, comfortable environment.
	Entry #79 Credit: Michelle Ovalle A Handmade Expressions artisan in India applies patterns to a tablecloth using the ancient handcraft of block printing. This skill is passed down through generations to preserve the cultural tradition and generate fair, sustainable incomes for this rural community.
	Entry #80 Credit: WorldFinds Women in the village of Sultan Puri, India who are part of WorldFind’s jewelry beading group. They gather at a central spot to collect supplies, and return to their homes to create beautiful jewelry. This program provides them with fair wages and regular work, so they contribute to their family income and can send their children (especially their girls!) to school.
	Entry #81 Credit: WorldFinds Happy students and a proud teacher at a school supported by the work of WFTO-member Tara Projects, in a community just outside of New Delhi, India.
	Entry #82 Credit: Lisa McSain Learning to weave Palm Stars is complicated. Trying their hands at it, visitors left with a novice-made piece of life there. The piece was a dearest souvenir of their time together at Keya Palm, awed by the skill of the many Bangladeshi hands and hearts that grace the fairly traded world.
	Entry #83 Credit: Lisa McSain Just outside of The Source, Prokritee’s fair trade retail store in the heart of Dhaka city, Bangladesh, school kits are being assembled by Mennonite Central Committee personnel. These are just a sampling of the materials that the children will receive for their studies, and a much needed resource for their hopeful futures.
	Entry #84 Credit: RICE, Inc and Eighth Wonder, Inc In Ifugao (Philippines), Openia Attaban works to restore a rice terrace that was destroyed by a mudslide. A grant from RICE, Inc’s Adopt-A-Terrace project allowed Openia to hire workers to build new terrace walls to separate the slide area from the unaffected portions of the terrace. The damaged area can now be cleaned, leveled and replanted.
	Entry #85 Credit: Eighth Wonder, Inc and RICE, Inc Over three weeks in September 2012, 185 small-holding farmers of the Rice Terraces Farmers Cooperative (Philippines) came together to consolidated and process their harvest of heirloom rice for local and export sales. These are the faces of the project- farmers, their children, NGO staff and supporting government officials.
	Entry #86 Credit: Mata Traders Vintage inspired and artisan made, Mata Traders clothing and accessories are handcrafted by women’s cooperatives and artisan groups in India and Nepal. Fashion a Better World.
	Entry #87 Credit: Mata Traders These children are playing at a daycare center located on-site in a Mumbai women’s cooperative. Mata Traders partners with this cooperative to bring stylish fair trade apparel to the American market.
	Entry #88 Credit: Mata Traders Radha sews buttons onto skirts during the sampling process for Mata Traders’ Spring ’13 collection. Mata Traders is a Chicago-based fair trade fashion company partnering with women’s cooperatives and artisan groups in India and Nepal to create women’s apparel and jewelry.
	Entry #89 Credit: Divine Chocolate Elias Mohammed is a cocoa farmer and member of the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative in Ghana, which co-owns Divine Chocolate. He has five children and has been able to send them all to the school in the village built with Fairtrade premiums.
	Entry #90 Credit: Divine Chocolate Juliet Brago is a cocoa farmer and Executive Member of the Awaham Village Society outside of Kumasi, Ghana. Juliet is just one example of women who are empowered to take leadership roles inside of Kuapa Kokoo, the farmers cooperative that co-owns Divine Chocolate.
	Entry #91 Credit: Divine Chocolate Beatrice Asante is a cocoa farmer and member of the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative in Ghana, which co-owns Divine Chocolate. She has benefited from the woman’s entrepreneurship projects established with Fairtrade premiums.
	Entry #92 Credit: FYSIC Learning to select cocoa beans brought by young Togolese and Ivorians to a Fair Trade chocolate laboratory in Modica (Italy), in order to see the production process of a traditional chocolate recipe. From this experience, last June supporters got the first chocolate bars 100% made in Africa!
	Entry #93 Credit: FYSIC This is the connection started with the Fysic project, in Modica, Sicily (Italy). Young people from Cote D’Ivoire, Togo, Czech Republic and Italy met there in order to share experiences and information about Fair Trade, with the goal of creating a wide net for responsible tourism and chocolate production.
	Entry #94 Credit: Art AIDS Art In Capetown, S. Africa, Abisha proudly displays beaded skulls handmade for Fair Trade organization Art Aids Art. Abisha poses in front of a “No Hawkers” sign to act in solidarity with independent artisans who are often prohibited from selling in public areas as an alternative to corporate malls that increasingly occupy urban space.
	Entry #95 Credit: Robert Mckinnon / Pure Art Contemplative work in a peaceful environment reflects a sense of inner calm while hand crafting Nepalese paper products on the outskirts of Kathmandu, empowering young women in the community through responsible employment opportunities. Pure Art is a Proud Fair Trade Federation Member.
	Entry #96 Credit: Robert Mckinnon / Pure Art Indigenous Shipibo women of the Peruvian jungle preserve their culture through sustainable sewing projects along the Ucayali River, near the Amazonian town of Pucallpa Peru. Artisans using ancestral techniques weave intricate patterns finished on manual sewing machines provided by Pure Art , a proud member of the Fair Trade Federation.

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