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I think the biggest mistake one can make when thinking about buying fair trade is to say to yourself: "How can this decision really make any difference? EVERYBODY ELSE is buying from big corporation XYZ so what difference does it make if I buy fair trade?". Instead of picturing/ignoring all the people who will continue to toil away in sweatshops making high street fashion think of the workers who profit from working for a fair trade company. Two of these workers, Maria Elena Medina Vallejos and Sulema Mena Garay from the womens' cooperative "Nueva Vida Fair Trade Zone” in Nicaragua are visiting ten German cities between the 2nd and the 12th of June 2010. Please scroll down for dates and places.
For those of you who aren't familiar with "Links à la Mode": it's the Independent Fashion Bloggers' weekly roundup of members' blog entries. I have picked out my favourite posts from the last three editions:




