cooperatives
Last updated by QuebradaGrande on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 20:36.
This is a project started by a group of UCLA undergrads to help raise the coffee producers of Quebrada Grande, Honduras, out of their extreme poverty.
For generations, these farmers who live and work high in the mountains of Honduras have been isolated from the rest of the world, with no clean running water, sanitation, health care, or education. The average family of five lives on about $0.74 a day, oftentimes only able to feed their children 4 or 5 times a week.
Last updated by ruthdegolia on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 10:46.
Mercado Global is a non-profit fair trade organization that links the world’s most rural and economically-disadvantaged cooperatives to the U.S. market through a model that provides both fair wages and investments in each community’s long-term development. We work with women’s artisan cooperatives in Latin America, helping them to develop and produce beautiful, all-natural handmade products. Our primary product lines include: organic, naturally dyed cotton products, eco-friendly ceramics, and all-natural jewelry.
