FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE | Ethical Fashion Guatemala

Does “Fair-Trade” Coffee Help Poor Nations?

In Guatemala not exactly.

FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE

However, a recent analysis of Fair Trade cooperatives in Guatemala indicates that while Fair Trade is indeed helping to improve the situation for some growers with small to mid-size farms, the actual improvement in wages and working conditions for the seasonal workers have been minimal to non-existent.

Also, according to Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International, Fair Trade farmers sell only about 20% of their coffee at a Fair Trade price.

The rest is sold at the lower world price due to a lack of demand for Fair Trade coffee, thus continuing to keep workers’ wages below what is needed to adequately feed and shelter their families.

Providing Services for Artisans.

Female Artisans Impacted the Most.

FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE.

Woman make up over 90% of the Artisans we work with.

Ethical Fashion Guatemala Artisan Products Exported to 150 countries.

FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE

We are a website for all Artisans, providing a way for potential customers to work directly with the Artisan that produced your product.

Or products you may be considering?

No middlemen.

Artisans receive 86% of the retail selling price of the products sold.

How will you know?

You pay the Artisan direct.

We call it Transparency.

We do not seek donations to help support our Artisans.

We are a business.

Or make claims of Fair Trade.

Ethical Fashion Guatemala provides Textile, lotions, creams, jewelry, coffee, chocolate, honey directly to the Producers.

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Buying directly from Guatemalan Artisans eliminates exploitation.

That is the purpose of this website, to connect the consumer with the creator, eliminating intermediaries.

The Artisans behind Ethical Fashion Guatemala aren’t just stopping at setting up an e-commerce website for Guatemalan Artisans, — they’re also going after thousands of American sellers who are either hawking fakes or just blatantly ripping off the Guatemalan artisans they buy from.

FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE is about paying low wages in developing countries.

Compensation for producers is not based on North American wage standards or the retail-selling price of the products sold under Fair Trade programs.

Wages offered By Fair Trade is Un-Fair compensation based on the true cost of production in that country.

In Guatemala, the Fair Trade average wage for an Artisan, producing a product is Q59.70 per day or $6.50 per day.

Three days to produce a shoulder tote, the Artisan earns $19.50 for a Tote the Fair Trade Org, or partner sells the Tote for $250.00 online or in a retail location.

Is That Fair, forget the Fair Trade Part???

Fair wages are determined by a number of factors, including:

The amount of time, skill, and effort involved in the production
Minimum and living wages where products are made
The purchasing power in a community or area
Other costs of living in the local context

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Ethical Fashion Guatemala is not a 501(C)3

The purpose of this website is to create consumer awareness of the problems Artisans in many countries face.

Theft of Indigenous Cultural designs is destroying the lives of the producers.

Websites selling Artisan products pay the producers less than 20% of the retail value of the products they offer.

Many websites use photos of Artisan in poverty in order to receive donations or purchases.

Ethical Fashion Guatemala will not accept donations.

We are a business earning our revenue from profits from shipping services and aiding Artisans to sell products direct to the consumer.

We are Guatemalan owned and based.

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Artisan Workshop’s and Buying Tours

People do not buy goods and services.
They buy relations, stories, and magic.” Seth Godin

Meeting Artisans in their small shops and homes spent a day and learn about the magic.

Workshops create relationships for people, learn the craft and how the Mayan Culture plays into the design.

The magic is educating consumers about the quality products, produced by Guatemalan Artisans.

If you have Facebook, you can connect long after you have left Guatemala.

Workshops offered by Guatemala Artisans

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We guarantee through this website Ethical Fashion Guatemala you are dealing directly with the Guatemalan Artisan who produced the unique products you have purchased.

Alternatively, are considering Purchasing.

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Omar Soumoza San Pedro La Laguna Lake Atitlan Guatemala.

Model:
Kaila Tzul Tzul Panajachel Solola

Does “Fair-Trade” Coffee Help Poor Nations?

Female Artisans Impacted the Most.

Ethical Fashion Guatemala Artisan Products Exported to 150 countries.

How will you know?

You pay the Artisan direct.

You can stop the exploitation of FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE

FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE is about paying low wages in developing countries.

Is That Fair, forget the Fair Trade Part???

Ethical Fashion Guatemala is not a 501(C)3

Artisan Workshop’s and Buying Tours

A Website for the Artisans of the World

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Does “Fair-Trade” Coffee Help Poor Nations?

Female Artisans Impacted the Most.

Ethical Fashion Guatemala Artisan Products Exported to 150 countries.

How will you know?

You pay the Artisan direct.

You can stop the exploitation of FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE

FAIR Pay NOT Un-FAIR TRADE is about paying low wages in developing countries.

Is That Fair, forget the Fair Trade Part???

Ethical Fashion Guatemala is not a 501(C)3

Artisan Workshop’s and Buying Tours

A Website for the Artisans of the World

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