Support Fair Trade
At Oxfam, we advocate Fair Trade as a means of poverty reduction:
- Buy Fair Trade: use your consumer power to make a difference
- Educate yourself on the Fair Trade movement
- Tell everyone you know about Fair Trade
- Eat and drink Fair Trade, and serve it to your family and friends
- Ask your employer to stock Fair Trade coffee or tea in the canteen / pantry / school cafeteria
- Read O.N.E on Fair Trade
- Read more on: www.fairtradehk.org
"Some people say Fair Trade products are more expensive. I’d say it has more to do with our values than with price. If more and more people demand Fair Trade products, the cost will naturally go down. On the other hand, if businesses comply with the Fair Trade system, giving producers a fair return and providing a fund to improve community development and infrastructure, then the issue of Fair Trade products being more expensive would not exist. By then, all products would be produced in a fair way, and the livelihoods of all farmers and workers would be improved."
Oxfam Ambassador Karena Lam
“We all share the same Earth, whatever happens in any part of the world, it is all connected. I believe that everyone has the ability to change the world. When we choose Fair Trade products, we are exercising our consumer rights to improve the livelihood of marginalised farmers, workers and children – making the world a better place, one step at a time.”
Oxfam Ambassador Anthony Wong Yiu Ming
"In 2008, a friend invited me to join a committee of the newly established Fair Trade Hong Kong. In the beginning, I was driven to the cause by the desire to help alleviate poverty of marginalised farmers and producers in developing countries. Fair Trade is not just about fighting poverty, it is also about the health and safety of millions of farmers and environmental protection. The craving for profits had led to too much abusive use of chemicals and pesticides harming us.
Climate change has already been a real concern for everyone. I do hope more and more people will think and act less selfishly in this age. We have the duty to nurture our next generation to be a generation more caring for the earth and the people living on it."
Carol Chen(third from right), Secretary, Fair Trade Workplace Society Steering Committee
“In the past, we farmers were frequently exploited by the large privately-owned sugar mill where we used to sell our sugarcane. The prices the mill offered were as low as 10 pesos/kg, which barely covered the cost of transportation and other expenses. We could hardly make ends meet,and we rarely had enough to eat. With Fair Trade, the price of the sugar is set fairly at 16.66 pesos/kg. We want Hong Kong people to learn more about Fair Trade and buy our sugar so that we can improve our living standards.”
Dina Mansayon, 42, Fair Trade and organic sugar farmer, leader of a farmers group, Philippines
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