Renewable Energy
In 2004, the factories we use were certified by the FLO - the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation. FLO make it possible for more than one million producers, workers and their dependants in over 50 countries to benefit directly from strict minimum standards of wage and working conditions set by the organisation. The Fairtrade mark guarantees that our threads conform to FLO standards, and therefore directly contribute to the economic development of the poor and disadvantaged of Tiripur.
This isn’t to say that the Fairtrade logo is about to make trade fair! Oh no! Sadly, globalisation is a lot more complicated than that; and thanks to the policies of governments and global financial institutions like the World Bank, World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), global trade inequalities will persist regardless, unless these policies are changed. What our threads will do is pay the workers involved in every aspect of their production a decent wage in the meantime.
“Rich countries spend $1 billion a day on agricultural subsidies, the same amount spent on agricultural aid to poor countries in a whole year.”
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2005