Fair Trade Coffee

Thanks to church members, as well as Creation Care Team members, FCC now uses exclusively fair trade coffee during it's 9:30 coffee hour! The coffee comes from both LaRue and Pura Vida.

The purpose of fair trade is to promote healthier working conditions and greater economic incentive for coffee producers. In buying and consuming fair trade coffee, you are ensuring that growers are provided with a living wage and safe working conditions.

Standards for fair trade coffee certification include:

• Fair labor conditions: Those who work with Fair Trade farms are able to work with freedom of association, safe working conditions, and fair wages. Child labor is strictly prohibited.
• Direct trade: With Fair Trade, importers purchase from Fair Trade producer groups as directly as possible, eliminating the middle man and letting the farmer compete in the global market.
• Democratic and transparent organizations: Through proof of a democratic market, Fair Trade farmers and farm workers decide how to invest Fair Trade revenues.
• Community development: Fair Trade farmers and workers invest Fair Trade premiums in social and business development projects like scholarship programs, healthcare services and quality improvement training.