Fair Trade Coffee Break Coaster Set Origin: Swaziland Gone Rural Fair Trade coffee deserves Fair Trade coasters. Add this set of four lutindzi grass coasters to your Fair Trade break on May 10th. Each time you rest your coffee mug on one of these coasters, remember that your purchase supports grassroots advocacy in the fight for government services to provide clean drinking water to families in rural Swaziland. Gone Rural products are dyed with a special, fuel-efficient process that has reduced wood consumption by 150% from traditional methods. For more info on World Fair Trade Day, visit www.ftrn.org
4” x 4”
Fair Trade Grass Table Settings Origin: Swaziland Gone Rural Serving any Fair Trade snacks at your Fair Trade Break on May 10th? If so, make sure your serving pieces are as socially just and eco-friendly as your chocolate. This set of four circular placemats, four coasters, and one trivet in rich earth tones is woven from tough lutindzi grass, which grows in rocky outcrops and is otherwise useless (even to grazing cattle). Women collect the grass after heavy rains, carefully leaving the roots in the soil to ensure its regrowth the following year.
Place mats: 11” diameter
Trivet: 8” diameter
Coasters: 4” diameter
Fair Trade Wine Bag Origin: Sri Lanka Dambadeniya Development Foundation Don’t show up empty handed at your Fair Trade Break on May 10th. If your break involves a bottle of wine, make sure you bring it to your host in this unique, socially conscious wine bag. Hand-woven from the leaves of Sri Lanka’s native Talipot palm, it is at once elegant and eco-friendly. Honor your host with a gift that supports Sri Lankan women working towards economic independence in the wake of Tsunami recovery.
Color: Natural
Fair Trade Embroidered Cards Origin: Thailand Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment Spread the word! Invite your friends and family to your Fair Trade Break with these beautiful cards made of handmade paper and embellished with traditional Burmese weaving and embroidery. Each cards comes with a handmade paper envelope. Your purchase of this card gives the gift of human rights education to Burmese refugee women.
5.75” x 4”
Fair Trade Thai Pencils Origin: Thailand Kachin Women’s Association Thailand Keep track of the number of people who come to your Fair Trade Break to help us make it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Keep tally with these Fair Trade pencils topped with a 1” doll clothed in traditional Burmese dress. Each unique doll reflects the personality of the woman who made it. Your purchase supports the Kachin Women’s Association, providing emergency and long-term assistance to women refugees. 
Fair Trade Cards from Uganda Origin: Uganda Foundation for Development of Needy Communities And of course, don’t forget to thank your guests and let them know how successful World Fair Trade Day was this year. Under the instruction of local artisans, the women of Mbale paint scenes of life in rural Uganda: women carrying earthen jugs atop their heads, shepherds tending their goats, and villagers pedaling on bicycles. Youth at the local FDNC vocational school then assemble the captivating images to create these unique cards. Your purchase provides for children affected by HIV and AIDS and supports youth programming in Eastern Uganda.
Contains a set of 10.
