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Fair Trade Holiday Gifts Ten Thousand Villages has been voted the Green Business of the Year via Co-op America. Learn about Free Trade and how this business practices it. Support Free Trade by purchasing your Holiday Gifts through Ten Thousand Villages or other Free Trade businesses. Ten Thousand Villageshttp://www.tenthousandvillages.com/home.php Fair Trade Ten Thousand Villages: Trading Fairly Since 1946To many, fair trade is just an economic term. Our definition, however, runs far deeper. At Ten Thousand Villages, fair trade is a partnership based on dialogue, mutual understanding, respect and direct contact between ourselves and our artisan partners in developing countries. Working with unemployed or underemployed artisans, we help them bring their crafts and cultures to North America, and to support themselves and their families. Ten Thousand Villages operates as a business with a compassionate mission by maintaining integrity in our actions and relationships. We market quality products from diverse cultures around the world made by people that we know and care enough about to do business with in a manner that together we consider fair.
Fair Prices, Prompt PaymentArtisans and buyers from Ten Thousand Villages work together to set a fair price for their products. In order to protect the artisans from incurring burdensome production costs, Ten Thousand Villages pays an advance of up to 50 percent at the time of order, and artisans receive prompt final payment when the order is shipped. Ultimately, this method of compensation enables artisans to avoid high borrowing costs and to cover labor and material costs while providing for their families.
Long-term RelationshipsThrough our regular purchases and long term relationships we try to grow together with artisan groups. Along the way, we believe that it is important to introduce artisans to other buyers as well so that they can establish a broad and stable customer base. Because of our commitment to long-term relationships, artisans can plan for the future confident of consistent orders, year after year. Ongoing interactivity and collaboration between our designers, buyers and artisans helps in the refinement of product offerings so that the needs and wants of the marketplace and our mission continue to be met. We have been practicing fair trade for over 50 years (since 1946) and continue to work with artisans in some of the countries where relationships were established in the 1950’s and 1960’s: http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/php/about.us/history.php
Ten Thousand Villages Receives the Co-op America People's Choice Award
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