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Marketplace Partners
The following organizations partner with the Enough for Everyone Global Marketplace at large church-wide gatherings of the PC(USA). They are excellent sources of responsibly made products, whether you are looking to purchase one gift now, or coordinate a holiday bazaar in the fall. We invite you to consider returning again and again to
these organizations, allowing them to become primary sources for your gifts and
products. Whether you are buying for yourself or for others, your purchases benefit
not only the people who use and enjoy the items, but, perhaps most importantly,
the people around the world who make them — and who often rely on
our support to live their lives in dignity rather than poverty.
Many products are available locally, too. Find an alternative trade store near you by searching the Fair
Trade Federation. |
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 Association
for the Protection of the Environment
(Egypt)
A project of Hands Along the Nile
U.S. Contacts: Nimet and Suzan Habachy
Phone: (212) 570-0497
The Association for the Protection of the Environment improves the lives of indigenous groups of garbage collectors near Cairo, Egypt, and helps protect the environment, focusing on income generation, recycling, health care, literacy, leadership training, mobilization of community resources, advocacy for women and girls, and networking in the areas of environment and development.
Order online
Contact: Nimet and Suzan Habachy
Phone: (212) 570-0497 |
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 Atfaluna Crafts (Palestine)
A project of the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children
Atfaluna's crafts production and vocational training units address the needs of deaf persons who have never had the chance to go to school. With no literacy or job skills, the majority of deaf women and men live well under the poverty line, dependent upon charity or help from their families. The Atfaluna Vocational Training Unit offers the opportunity for the deaf to learn woodworking, upholstery, picture framing, sewing, traditional embroidery, furniture finishing, furniture painting, fabric weaving, rug weaving or pottery-making. In addition to learning a trade, trainees also learn to do simple mathematics and learn to read and write. Upon completion of training courses, graduates are placed in community workshops or businesses, or in Atfaluna's Craft Production Unit.
Shop the Atfaluna web store. |
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 CAM Cabin Crafts (United States, Appalachian region)
A project of the Coalition for Appalachian Ministry
CAM Cabin Crafts sells crafts from over 115 Appalachian crafters and includes items such as dolls, quilts, food products, woodcrafts, toys and Christmas ornaments. CAM Cabin Crafts offers low-income crafters from the Appalachian region a place to sell their homemade items. The store, strategically located in a log cabin near the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, provides a welcome source of income for people who live in the area and fosters economic independence for the people of Appalachia.
Shop online through CAM Cabin Crafts or the SuperMarketCoop. |
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Founded in 1986, Equal Exchange is the oldest and largest for-profit 100% Fair Trade company in the US. The PC(USA)’s partner in the Presbyterian Coffee Project, Equal Exchange offers organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, chocolate bars and snacks produced by democratically run farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the US. Equal Exchange’s mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers, and to demonstrate, through its success, the contribution of worker cooperatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.
Shop the Equal Exchange Interfaith Program web store.
 
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Esperanza en Acción ("Hope through Action") is a Fair Trade organization based in Nicaragua that provides Nicaraguan artisans with the tools to lift themselves out of poverty by offering technical assistance and quality consultation in addition to education and practice in calculating a fair wage. Esperanza en Acción also works to connect these artisans to local and international fair trade markets so that they receive a living wage for their work. Additionally, we strive to educate people of the “First World” to empower us all to help transform the global economic system into one that is fair for ALL people. [Learn more] |
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Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries makes available Hmong cross stitch and reverse appliqué stitchery and other Southeast Asian refugee crafts. Some crafts have PC(USA) and PW logos.
Phone: (559) 487-1500 |
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Ghana Crafts
Ghana Crafts is a project engaged in by women and young girls in Ghana who make and sell different kinds of crafts to make their living with the proceeds.
Contact: Rev. Dinah Abbey-Mensah, former Missionary in Residence, PC(USA) World Mission.
Phone: +1-233 91 28052 |
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The Girls at Risk Project provides vocational opportunities to girls at risk in Pakistan. Vocational skill building includes commercial fabric painting, stitching, embroidery, tie dye (silk scarves), cotton tote bags (with the Presbyterian Women logo). The goal is to improve the social status of women in Pakistan through support, education and training of females to develop and better their local communities.
For more info or to order contact Mrs. Veeda Javaid. |
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Import Peace seeks to foster economic development and growth opportunities for olive oil from the West Bank to ease poverty and hardship. Net proceeds are re-invested in Palestine for olive tree plantings and local development projects which currently include micro loans for women, college scholarships for olive farmer children, and for Ahli Arab Hospital, the only Christian hospital in Gaza. Products include olive oil, soap and zatar (a Middle Eastern spice).
Order online. |
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Mayan Hands is a small fair trade organization, founded in 1989, which works with more than 200 women organized in 12 cooperative groups. These talented weavers produce beautiful, high quality textiles which Mayan Hands is proud to market. Earning a fair return for their work empowers the weavers and allows them to feed their families, send their children to school and harbor hopes for a better future.
View Mayan Hands online catalog.
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Original T-Bag Designs is a collective of artists who live in an informal settlement in Hout Bay, South Africa. With recycled tea bags as their canvases they are painting themselves out of poverty. The money earned by the artists helps to support a community of 125 people.
Shop the Original T-Bag Designs web store.
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OrganiPharm is a 100% grower owned company dedicated to producing high quality, environmentally sustainable botanical products for the health conscious consumer. OrganiPharm’s mission is to make medicinal plant production a viable economic option for the small farmer while at the same time providing premium quality natural products to both consumers and researchers. It was formed as an outgrowth of a series of Small Business Innovation Research grants from USDA Rural Development and the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Products include organic dietary supplements, soaps, skin care products, honey and hand tied brooms and other products from member farms in GA, NC, TN and AL.
Shop online through OrganiPharm or SuperMarket Co-op. |
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Partners for Just Trade
(Peru, Cameroon, Egypt)
Partners for Just Trade is a non-profit, Christian organization that builds partnerships between artisans and producers living in extreme poverty and conscientious consumers. We address root causes of poverty through Fair Trade sales, education, solidarity, and a commitment to trade justice.
More than 15 artisan groups—with over 200 producers—work with PJT. The fair wages received by the artisans enables them to afford food, shelter and medicine for their families, educate their children and reclaim personal dignity so they may assert their economic, political and social rights.
Today PJT is a recognized player in the national Fair Trade movement, providing superior Fair Trade products, upholding strong, transparent relationships with its producer partners, and educating consumers about the benefits of Fair Trade.
Shop the PJT web store.
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Morris Forks Crafts (Appalachia)
Contact: Elaine Stamper
Phone: (606) 398-2194 |
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PalCraft Aid (Palestine)
U.S. contacts: the Rev. Liz Knott
and Connie DePond
Phone: (253) 946-4810 |
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The Super Market Coop was designed to promote a people-to-people vision of trade. It is a collaborative effort of rural, community-based agricultural cooperatives to employ technology in the preservation of their communities, cultures and farming professions. By shopping through the online catalog customers can connect with farmers and rural communities to buy handmade products directly from producers. Products include a wide variety of food products, personal care products, home furnishings and crafts.
Shop the SuperMarket Coop web store.
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SERRV International
Enrich your life with beautiful handcrafted
items and change the world at the same time. SERRV offers a variety of fairly traded handcrafts and foods from
artisan and farmer partners in 35 countries. One of the first alternative trade organizations in the world, SERRV has worked on behalf of the world’s Artisans and Farmers for 60 years.
Shop the SERRV web store.
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 UPAVIM (Guatemala)
“Unidas Para Vivir Mejor” (United To Live Better)
UPAVIM is a non-profit women's cooperative in Guatemala City dedicated to the sale of Fair Trade crafts. All profits from UPAVIM's crafts sales go toward the empowerment of women and community service programs.
Shop the UPAVIM Web Store.
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Women’s Bean Project (United States)
Since 1989, the Women's Bean
Project, a nonprofit business, has helped women break the cycle of chronic poverty and unemployment by teaching workplace competencies within the context of two active businesses: production and sales (wholesale and retail) of a wide variety of signature soup and gourmet food mixes, and a catering service. Our goal is to assist women living in poverty to stabilize their lives, improve their self-esteem, and ultimately, move toward long-term employment and self-sufficiency.
Shop the Women’s Bean Project Web Store. |
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Zuni Gourmet Peanuts is an enterprise of Presbyterian Homes and Family Services, Inc. Zuni Presbyterian Homes in Virginia is a residential community ministry providing nurture, healing and encouragement for adults with mental retardation who may otherwise be homeless or hopeless. The Zuni Peanut Sheltered Workshop promotes independence and self-reliance while providing employment to residents. Under close supervision, adults master skills including the meaningful work of cooking, weighing and packaging delicious peanuts.
Shop the Zuni Peanuts web store. |
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