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HOLIDAY SHOP AT CORNERSTONE UMC'S FAIR TRADE MARKET
Cornerstone UMC just made Holiday shopping a whole lot easier, and you get to help others in the process, shop at our Fair Trade Market.
On Saturday, November 7 from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm, Cornerstone United Methodist Church will host a Fair Trade Market. Fair Trade provides under and unemployed artisans with an opportunity to earn vital income and improve their quality of life by establishing a sustainable market for their handcrafted products. By purchasing their products, this allows the artisans and their families to pursue better homes, education and healthy lives of dignity.
At the Fair Trade Market, unique products that are skillfully made from artisans around the world will be available for purchase. These items include: jewelry, purses, scarves, pottery, woven baskets, soap, tea, coffee, chocolate and more. Every item purchased provides vital, fair income to artisans and their families; this, in turn, provides economic vitality to their communities. Each purchase has far reaching impact around the world. There will also be lunch available from 11:30-1:30 for $7 on this day so you can grab a bite to eat before or after you shop.
Fair Trade is a concept that lessens the number of links in the supply chain and engages the artisan in the trade process. It results in higher pay, dignity, respect and sustainability of the artisan community. It also results in higher employment rates around the world, jobs for some who would otherwise not have them and access for all of us to unique, skillfully handmade and beautiful products from around the world. These products boast uncommon colors, shapes and textures not available from mass-produced product lines.
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“The Fair Trade Movement is an international network of producers, importers, retailers and consumers, which enables people in the developing world to sell their products at a price that allows them to live in dignity and to support themselves and their families,” says Mabel Dighton, Missions Coordinator for the church. “Your tax-deductible donation will not only go to help the artisans, but will also go to help the programs in Kenya and Zambia that provide much needed support to children orphaned by AIDS.”
For more information about this event or Cornerstone UMC visit our website at: www.umcornerstone.org