Fair Trade Coffee

Fair Trade helps farming families across Latin America , Africa and Asia to improve the quality of life in their communities and we at King's Fire International whole heartedly support their efforts.

For farmers and farm workers throughout the developing world whose livelihoods depend on products that Americans enjoy every day – coffee, tea, cocoa, bananas and other fresh fruits, sugar, rice, vanilla and herbs – survival can be a struggle. Low prices, market volatility and isolation often keep farmers in a cycle of poverty, unable to recover their cost of production. Families, communities and the environment all suffer as a result.

Fair Trade provides farming communities in over 50 developing countries with a proven solution to these challenges. The dramatic, quality-of-life improvement that 1.2 million of these farming families enjoy does not come from charity or government aid, but from their own businesses, which Fair Trade has helped to build into thriving international enterprises.

Fair Trade Educates Children - by providing scholarships and building schools in some of the most historically isolated communities around the developing world

Fair Trade Saves Lives - by giving farmers and farm workers access to healthcare allowing them to invest some of the Fair Trade premiums they earn into life-saving health facilities and programs

Fair Trade Empowers Women - by providing women with funds for life-saving women’s health programs and leadership training

Fair Trade Protects the Environment - with stringent environmental criteria discouraging deforestation, preserving traditional intercropped farms and promoting organic production

You can learn more at the Global Exchange website.