Are you supporting unfair labor practices with your purchases? Project FAIR, Texas Grand Champion for the Middle Division of Texas Future Problem Solving Program's Community Problem Solving Competition, presents information about Fair Trade practices and their work to educate their community. We are confident that this information will make a difference!

1. Fair Trade
Project FAIR

2. What is Fair Trade?
Fair trade is a label given to products and
companies who abide by these guidelines:
• Pay fair wages to workers and farmers
• Not employ children
• Not overwork employees
• Use humane ethics

3. How are Fair Trade and
Normal Trade Different?
When purchasing items that are not fair
trade, the product producers (farmers or
craftsmen) unfortunately are often paid wages
on which a typical farmer can not
survive, ultimately not allowing them to
support themselves or family.

4. Fair Trade to Consumers
Fair Trade offers consumers a powerful way to
reduce poverty through their everyday
shopping.

5. Fair Trade to Farmers and Workers in
Developing Countries
To farmers and workers, fair trade offers better
prices, improved terms of trade, and the
business skills necessary to produce high-
quality products that can compete in the
global marketplace.

6. Non Fair Trade
If a company is not a fair trade company, then
they often use unfair labor practices such as
unfair wages, child labor, and even slave labor!
Not only are these labor practices inhumane
and appalling, but they also contradict the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

7. What’s the Problem?
“As long as we keep paying companies to be
unsustainable and unethical, they will be.”
In this day and age, people are unaware of the
indecencies against human beings and large
scale companies taking advantage of these
underdeveloped countries. If the world
remains unaware of this problem, then the
non fair trade companies will continue to
flourish.

8. Why Does this Happen?
Many companies that do not use fair labor
practices do not utilize it because, recently, they
have not been forced to do so. There is not a high
enough demand for fair trade products that
pressure producers to make the
change. If the world would
go out and truly want fair
trade products, then large
corporations would move
towards our fair trade goal.

9. What Can YOU Do to Help?
• Change a few items in your shopping cart to
fair trade alternatives
• Attend local fair trade events
• Visit local fair trade shops
• Get others involved- tell friends and family
about fair trade and they might also want to
help

10. Fair Trade Products
Chocolate, Soap, Bananas, Tea, Coffee, Sugar,
Biscuits, Dried Fruit, Nuts, Energy Drinks, Peanut
Butter, Olive Oil, Rice, Pasta, Sports Equipment,
and Wine are all products that can be made and
bought fairly.

11. Fair Trade Logos
When purchasing products, look for any of
these logos to confirm whether or not the
product is fair trade.

12. Where to Find Fair Trade Products
While you can find many fair trade products
online, they can be easily bought in stores that
are:
• Known to have organic products
• Environmentally sustainable
• Small, family owned grocers

13. Who Are We?
We are Project FAIR, a group of eighth grade
students aiming to educate our community
about fair trade, and teach people how to
help ensure that workers have available
schools, good wages, and livable conditions.

14. How Are We Helping?
So far, we have worked vigorously to educate
our community through ways such as
informational speaking, the selling of fair
trade goods and products, distributing
hundreds of flyers or brochures, and we are
even aiming for our school lunches to have fair
trade fruits and vegetables added! Our goal is
for everybody to know what fair trade is, how
to recognize it, and why they should care.

15. Market Place
At our school, students are given the
opportunity to create and run their own booth
where they can sell any sort of item. We used
this time to sell and spread the word on fair
trade products.

16. Selling Fair Trade Products!

17. Elementary Schools Tour
To inform the youth of our school district, we
went to some elementary schools in our district
to inform the students about fair trade.

18. Visiting the Elementary Schools!

19. You Can Help
As easily as purchasing a brand of food that
you would not normally purchase can change
the lives of the distressed, overworked, and
poverty-stricken people all over the world. A
single item per store visit has the opportunity
to help the world. Now that you know of the
cruelties that are inflicted upon human
beings, we hope that you will make the right,
heartfelt decision when purchasing any item
with a fair trade alternative.