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…
My mom has always been supportive of me no matter what crazy idea I get or new path I decide to forge. She lets me be me, and she loves me unconditionally. She’s the best mom a girl could ask.
My mom has been there every step of the way as I’ve gone through becoming a mother just this past March- she’s a lifesaver and is always just a phone call away. She took time off of work to come stay with my husband and I to help us settle in as parents- and she brought loads of food!
My stepmom has been there for me, no matter what, since coming into my life.
My mom inspires me to push myself in school and not give up on my goals. She’s a strong, intelligent and successful woman that I aspire to be like.
My mom has been my rock and my cheerleader for my whole life. She’s not just a mother, but a role model, a super hero, and a best friend.
My mom is my very best friend. I don’t know what I would every do without her.
I admire my Mom because she’s a great chef and never gets tired of cooking and baking. She rather looks after everyone else than herself and sometimes I have to remind her about that.
This would be great to give my mum together with some flowers I want to pick tomorrow 🙂 and I know, she´ll share with me 😉
I used to think my mom wore the wackiest clothes, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate and emulate her sense of style, because she wears what she likes and does it so well. It’s how she wants me to live my life too, doing what you want in life without worrying what others think of it; mixing the conventional and the wild.
My mom is an amazing woman. She didn’t blink an eye when I declared at age 9 that I was a vegetarian, and she has always been a great (and healthy!) cook. She is adventurous and generous and open–with food and with life!
My mum is amazing because she had the strength and courage to keep our family ticking after my father passed away when I was young. And for that I am eternally grateful.
My mom rocks! Her selfless love and and makes her both just my mother, but a best friend too!
My mom has known me since a very young age and honestly has grown from mother into best friend. I could never thank her enough for all she sacrificed to make the life i live now a reality so i will pay homage to her with a variety of flowers.
My mom is always there for me when i need her.
My mother is my biggest hero, she left the love of her life and flew half way around the world to protect her child and unborn baby, also she makes amazing carrot cake! happy mothers day! x
I live 6 hours away from my mom, but she is the greatest. My mom has always been the person that took care of everyone, and also held my family together. When my dad passed away almost 5 years ago, my mom was totally rocked- it was out of the blue. Through the last few years, everyone in my family has had to adapt and to support each other. When my dad died, my mom for the first time in my life seemed vulnerable. She needed me, and my brother, because her life as she knew it was gone. She has really worked to adapt, to remember who she is as an individual, and also to adapt to her new role as grandma (!) to my nephew. This is the future of my family, but my mom is, of course, at the very heart of it all. I love you Mom, Happy Mother’s Day!!!
My mom makes the everyday special.
My mother is my best friend. I don’t know what, or who, I would be without her.
My mother is the strongest and most inspiring woman I know. Her father died when she was 17 years old. To help support her family, she had to take evening college classes and get a job while she was still in high school. I’ve learned so much from her and couldn’t be more grateful to have an influence like her in my life.
My Mother is one of the strongest, smartest women I know. She was one of the very first people (and the first woman) in our family to leave the very tiny rural town in North Carolina at 18 and moved to Miami Beach during the swinging 60s. She put herself through nursing school and ended up traveling the world.
I love her more than anything. ♥