This weekend, celebrate Mother’s Day the Fair Trade way. When you buy your mom chocolate, coffee, or flowers be sure to look for the Fair Trade Certified logo… you’ll be helping mothers and families in developing countries earn livable wages and ensure safe working conditions.
Read the stories of Fair Trade moms all over the world (click)
Why & where to buy Fair Trade flowers? (click)
What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade is a global movement to alleviate poverty in the developing world, while ensuring consumers quality products that improve lives and protect the environment. Everyday purchases that bear the Fair Trade Certified™ logo come from farmers and workers in the developing world who are justly compensated, allowing them to build sustainable businesses that positively influence their communities.
And now the giveaway!
Fair Trade is sending one lucky winner a box of goodies, many of which were made by women-only cooperatives. The box includes: Choice Tea, Allegro Coffee, Alter Eco Thai Sticky Purple Rice, a Chocolove Chocolate bar, a bag of Larabars, and a coupon for Iced Bhakti Chai tea.
This giveaway is now closed, thank you for all the lovely comments…
I can only hope to be as strong and graceful as my mother when I become one—she is my constant inspiration . . .
My mom knows what she wants & perserveres.
I love this blog! The recipes are fab and the style is divine.
Cool blog! My mom used to sing me to sleep with I was a kid, and read all the Ramona books aloud to me. I now do that to my 3 boys! She is a good example.
My mom makes the best sandwiches!
I love that my mom has an uncanny ability to read a situation, figure out how best to help, and do it sometimes without your even knowing it.
My mother is the most amazing and strong woman I know. She’s been an example and role model to me in many ways.
My mom will go to ten different stores, just to make sure she has the perfect gift for someone. It is that desire to find the best for someone she loves, that I love about her.
My mom died suddenly 11 years ago. Still love and appreciate her more than ever. Every day I hear her voice and am reminded with a smile of things we shared.
My mom passed away 15 years ago. She was a lover of life and never let go of her spirited ways. She was a painter of paint-by-numbers, registered nurse, belly dancer and singer with our player piano. She dug up a little rock garden in our suburban Detroit home and put in a plastic pool with goldfish in it. She took a burlap bag and embroidered away all the letters on it to create a beautiful Native American Halloween costume. She married my stepfather a month after meeting him and raised seven children, loving every minute. I miss her forever.
My mom has been very sick for a little over a month now. She is a fighter and is on her way to recovery. I’m extra thankful for her this Mother’s Day!
My mom is still working hard to raise my youngest siblings, she’s been parenting for 24 years and has at least 8 more years of kids in the house. I admire her patience and love through it all!
My mom is the most generous person I’ve ever met. She’s also smart, caring, and taught me to follow my dreams.
I love my mom! Everyday should be Mother’s Day for her!
I love that I can talk about anything with my mom!
My mom is a very thoughtful & caring person, and the best grandmother to my kids.
My mom is my best friend and always will be!
My mom taught me to sew…..also to find my way without a family.
My mom is my best friend and my number one fan. Case in point: this Mother’s Day she plans to drive for several hours just to watch me compete for a few short minutes. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.
My mom has saved my life more times than I count. I don’t know where I’d be without her. I’d do anything for her.