This week we are thanking and recognizing the people who make Global Exchange’s work possible. We’re highlighting a few individuals who represent the thousands who make up the amazing global network of change makers.
In this post, we thank Lyla Seo for shopping Fair Trade. To read about others we’re thankful for, click here.
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Thank You Lyla Seo, Shopper on a Mission
Lyla Seo is helping to fundamentally realign our global economic order. She’s funding healthcare, education, and women’s empowerment. She’s supporting worker’s rights and helping end child slavery.
And she’s doing all this through one simple act; purchasing Fair Trade products.
Lyla shops at our San Francisco Global Exchange Fair Trade store, and we couldn’t be more grateful for folks like her. For over two decades, Global Exchange has been a leader in the Fair Trade movement. And over the years, we’ve come to realize a simple truth:
Fair Trade’s success or failure is completely dependent on people like Lyla.
Purchases drive the Fair Trade system, providing the development premiums that make a meaningful difference in the lives of producers the world over. All of the projects that matter most – building schools and clinics to developing the infrastructure for additional trade – are only possible when the market for Fair Trade thrives.
All trade provides income, but Fair Trade goes beyond the exchange, expanding rights at the workplace and amplifying the voices of farmers and artisans. And for commodities like cocoa, Fair Trade is a powerful mechanism for ending child slavery.
We weren’t kidding about the whole fundamental realignment thing.
Lyla knows just how much power she really has. She explains that she shops at the Global Exchange retail store “because it is important to shop Fair Trade,”
We agree. And we are thankful for all of the people who help Fair Trade grow.
To Lyla and all of the other Fair Trade supporters out there:
Thank you.
P.S. Have you watched our new Thank You video yet?