Join Caritas in Celebrating World Fair Trade Day with Tastings, Exhibitions, and More Across Spain: See Program of Activities

Under the motto “It suits everyone well”, Caritas will join the celebration of World Fair Trade Day (May 13) with a program of activities, organized by the Diocesan Caritas of the Caritas Fair Trade Network. There will be tastings, exhibitions, talks, information tables in the street, manifesto reading, markets, projections and much more in Malaga, Huesca, Teruel, Zaragoza, Barbastro, Monzon, Miranda de Ebro, Burgos, Cuenca, Alicante, Albacete, Menorca, Castelló, Valencia, Majorca and Bilbao. SEE PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES

With this day, the Fair Trade organizations want to draw the attention of consumers to abusive working conditions, child exploitation or the destruction of forests that, in many cases, are hidden behind everyday products such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea or clothes.

In the note released by the State Fair Trade Coordinator For this day, it is remembered that Fair Trade products guarantee respect for labor and human rights, decent wages and conditions, combat child exploitation, support gender equality and are produced with techniques that are respectful of the earth and the environment. natural. This commercial model, which was born in the 1960s, is now present in more than 70 countries.

What we do at Caritas:

• Through its Fair Trade Network, in which 24 Diocesan Caritas participate, Caritas is contributing to the transformation of this unfair trade model that harms people and the planet.
• During the year 2022, 432 actions to raise awareness and denounce unsustainable and not very inclusive practices have been carried out, through campaigns, talks, training activities and participation in fairs and other spaces.
• We have 45 points of sale and 21 stores spread throughout the territory. (SEE MAP)
• The Fair Trade actions carried out by the network have involved an investment of €635,030, of which €564,693 have been recovered from product sales turnover (89%).
• Finally, we accompany and collaborate with other agents and entities, nationally and internationally, from the model of fraternal cooperation. A good example of this collaboration are the projects supported by Cáritas Española in Bangladesh and the Holy Land.

You can see all the activities of the Caritas Fair Trade Network on the interactive website

The celebration of World Fair Trade Day is promoted in our country by the Fair Trade State Coordinator (CECJ) of which Cáritas is a part.

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