Think fair trade & think of Traidcraft!
They were doing fair trade before the term was coined & have been at the forefront of just about every fair trade development. And 40 years later they are still working tirelessly on progressing fair trade.
It all began in 1970, when a typhoon killed over half a million people in Bangladesh. World development charity Tearfund started to deliver relief to the Bangladeshi people, and in 1974, Richard Adams, with the backing of Tearfund, filled a returning aeroplane with jute handicrafts, to sell in the Uk to help the people with trade, as well as aid. This was the start of Tearcraft & it made a real difference to the lives of artisans, but Richard felt constrained by what the organisation could achieve & a group of 6 friends started Traidcraft.
