Santarosafairtrade

Another one of the organizations that made it possible for Santa Rosa to become a fair trade town doing things right!

Our lovely, dedicated Chief Development Officer Angela Moeller on the run at Habitat. She's doing a fabulous job organizing The Habitat Center Pre-Opening event for next Friday, June 21st. https://www.facebook.com/events/838897703162736/
Angie, Thank you for always having a smile on your face and keeping things rolling in the Fund Development Department. Go Team Habitat!

"First of its kind

The signing of the code, the first of its kind in East Africa, is a major win for suppliers, particularly local suppliers who have been operating at the mercy of retailers.

Suppliers says that the code will not only ensure they are promptly paid but it will also save them from foreign supermarket chains that enter the Kenyan market with conditions that many consider unfair."

Win for Kenya suppliers in new policy shift Supermarket chains will be required to pay suppliers within an agreed timeframe.

"Appearing on Sunday's episode of Shark Tank, Uniform co-founders Chid Liberty and Adam Butlein also founded Liberty & Justice, a New York City-based textile company that bills itself as the first Fair Trade-certified apparel-manufacturing company in Africa. The business was generating $40 million in annual sales when, in 2014, the Ebola virus outbreak struck West Africa, killing more than 11,000 people and forcing the company to cease operations for more than a year.

"We went from figuring out how quickly we would grow to how to save all of our workers' lives," Liberty told the Sharks."

'Shark Tank Recap': These 'Shark Tank' Founders Had to Overcome the Ebola Virus. Here's How They Persevered 'We went from figuring out how quickly we would grow to how to save all of our workers' lives,' Uniform co-founder Chid Liberty told the Sharks.