Fair Trade Market 2020
The building remains closed, but the work of the Overbrook Presbyterian Church continues. We won’t be holding our Fair Trade Market in December, but instead have moved it outside with the final weeks of the OPC Farmers’ Market. Stop by November 7, 14, and 21 from 9 AM to 1 PM each day (as long as supplies last) to shop for items produced at a fair wage and with minimal impact on the environment. There will be crafts, olive oil, coffee, cocoa, and more!
If you can't make it to church or can't find what you want (we'll have a limited supply of items), we encourage you to shop online with some of our great fair trade vendors from past markets:
- Earth & State: A shop in Media, PA featuring handmade fair trade items. Open for in-store and virtual shopping.
- Global Crafts/Gifts with Humanity: Gifts With Humanity is a brand of Global Crafts. Our mission is to offer income-generating opportunities to craftspeople in developing countries by following fair trade practices including paying in advance at least the market price for items, ensuring that craftspeople receive payment, and ensuring that the craftspeople work in fair working conditions.
- Global Goods Partners: As a not-for-profit social enterprise, Global Goods Partners (GGP) is committed to providing sustainable jobs for women—widely proven to be the key to community development and family wellbeing. In partnership with women-led, community-based organizations, GGP taps into the rich well of skill and artistry that is passed from one generation of women to the next.
- Sophedgy: We want to help people around the world overcome poverty and oppression by promoting the purchase of Fair Trade products and ideology.
- Ten Thousand Villages: We're a global maker‑to‑market movement that breaks the cycle of generational poverty and ignites social change. We're a way for you to shop with intention for ethically-sourced wares — and to share in the joy of empowering makers in ten thousand villages.
- Women's Bean Project: We believe that all women have the power to transform their lives through employment. So we hire women who are chronically unemployed and we teach them to work by making nourishing products. They learn to stand tall, find their purpose and break the cycle of poverty. Because when you change a woman’s life, you change her family’s life.