It starts with the beans: Fair-trade movement gains momentum
In the late summer of 2002, thousands of starving coffee farmers and their families streamed down from the northern mountains of Nicaragua. Some carried crosses. They established shantytowns along the Panamerican Highway. Many of their children were too weak to open their eyes.
Twenty-one deaths were reported at the peak of that crisis. Relief workers met the emergency as relief workers do, urgently and overwhelmed. But in the aftermath was born a commitment that could be the single greatest boost to date of fair-trade coffee — the potential of 65 million U.S. Catholic consumers of a product that promises a better life to the people who grow it….
Yes, I would like to know where to get it!