Fair Trade Consumer Guide
Fair Trade Manitoba is pleased to offer our Fair Trade Consumer Guide, which lists retail outlets in Manitoba where consumers can purchase Fair Trade products.
Browse or search the complete guide online using the tools at right, or download the guide to your computer.*
If you are a fair trade retailer and would like to be listed or have your information updated in our guide, please download our fair trade questionnaire and send it back to MCIC.
*Requires Adobe Reader software. PDF version of guide last updated February 2008.
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Retailer Spotlight
Ten Thousand Villages
As part of the Mennonite Central Committee’s international effort, this popular non-profit fair trade organization offers a wide variety of ethical products from Palestinian cross-stitch needlework to Nubian baskets straight from Uganda. Based on the belief that all artisans globally should receive respect, dignity and hope from working hard and earning fair value for their work, this program offers an alternative, ethical choice for Canadian shoppers.
Ten Thousand Villages began in 1946 when Edna Ruth Byler, an MCC worker, visited volunteers in Puerto Rico and brought several pieces of embroidery home to sell to friends and neighbours. This initial effort continued to expand as Byler eventually sold fair trade products from her basement, and then came to create SELF HELP CRAFTS, an official MCC program. As SELF HELP flourished from the support of thousands of loyal customers and volunteers, it became known as Ten Thousand Villages in 1996.
Ten Thousand Villages is a member of the International Fair Trade Organization (IFAT) and operates over 40 stores across Canada – each of which is a unique global experience, ensuring fair wage and fair work for artisans internationally.
