Thank you for signing up! How Fair Trade Turned Life Around for
a Family in India “When you bring back the smile to one person,
you also profit. The deepest happiness you can have comes from
that capacity to help relieve the suffering of others.”
“Tomorrow, I will have money; I will not have to beg, and my
children can go to school,” says beadwork artisan Ms. Jagwati,
summing up the most important reason to support fair trade: to
restore someone’s hope, dignity, and smile. Jagwati comes from a
slum in Delhi, one of many places around the world where fair
trade is paving a way out of the cycle of poverty. This
February, Gaiam sent a small team to meet some of these
extraordinary survivors in the places where they live and work —
in India and in poor villages and communities across Vietnam,
Cambodia and northern Thailand. Here, fair trade is a way out of
the bleak cycle of poverty. By paying livable wages, funding
schools and providing job training and child care assistance,
fair trade is helping talented yet d