Fair Trade
Fair Trade guarantees a decent salary for small-scale producers, which allows them to cover the costs of production and to allow their family to live with dignity. It’s also a set of rules for good working conditions and to counter the exploitation of workers. A social premium is also deposited for community development as well as to enhance the infrastructures on the production sites
Fair Trade is also a freedom of association and a transparent management.
At Equicosta we deal with small cooperatives in order to sustain communities, to allow commercial autonomy for small-scale producers and a democratic administration.
For more information on Fair Trade: www.transfair.ca
Fair Trade: Impacts of the Social Premium
Nuevo Mundo is dreaming of and creating a more just world; thanks to the social premiums in 2006 they were able to finance:
- The planting of 4000 trees in the banana plantations, compensating each producer who plants a tree on his land the price of one banana box annually for the loss of production incurred.
- The construction of sanitary areas (toilets) in proximity to the banana plantations for 40 producers.
- The construction of eating areas shaded spaces with tables so that the workers may eat.
- The foraging of water wells access to clean water for the workers.
- The deparasitizing of 812 children (parasites present in contaminated water)
- The handing of scholarships to all the producers’ children in order to pay for school supplies.
- Life and Accident insurance to all the workers in the cooperative.
- Work insurance to all the workers.
- The purchase of a vehicle for a mobile health service.
- The purchase of medical supplies.