Producer Stories

Eden Jewellery
Lured to the big cities by the prospect of finding a job to support their extended families, many young women in...

Bread of Life
Bread of Life cards and handicraft items are made by people who are trying to rebuild their lives in the struggling,...

Au Lac Designs
These items were made by rural craftspeople in Duyen Thai, a picturesque Vietnamese village south of Hanoi. The area is well-known...

Artisans Association of Cambodia
Enabling ethical producers in Cambodia to connect with the outside world. After decades of violent warfare, Cambodia has finally begun to stabilize...

Oasis Workshop, Bethlehem
In the dusty refugee camps, towns and villages around Bethlehem, people with mental disabilities can often be shunned and stigmatised by...

New Life from Dried Grass in Swaziland
"This epidemic is creating a nation of widows," said an NGO worker in Swaziland, speaking of the AIDS crisis that has...

Hunan Ethnic Crafts
Meiman, of China, knows the meaning of fair trade first hand. For almost a year, Meiman worked in a large factory...

Bombs to Jewellery
Young Heang, just three or four months of age, did not enjoy the fun of babyhood that is the ‘norm for...

Threads of Yunnan: Mountain-made Fair Trade
Life is a struggle for Wang Ping Fen and her husband. They live with their three children in the mountains of...