Located just outside Phonsavan, Mulberries Organic Silk Farm is a 45-hectare model farm dedicated to the revival and survival of all aspects of traditional Lao silk production. Mulberries’ mission is […]
Long-Term Recovery Initiative in Nepal
On April 25, 2015, a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, killing over 8000 people and leaving thousands more injured and displaced. Since then, Fair Trade Group Nepal (FTGN) has launched the Rebuild […]
Fair Trade Helps Women Rebuild Their Lives
Author: Bianca Caruana, The Altruistic Traveller On November 8th 2013 category 5 Typhoon Yolanda decimated the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, leaving catastrophic carnage to some of the Philippines poorest […]
Land is Life – Farmer’s Fight for Justice in the Philippines
Author: Bianca Caruana, The Altruistic Traveller Their world grows rapidly, a world that has forgotten about them; man-made structures pummel the once baron green lands where many of them have stood […]