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What can we do
Yet there is an easy and practical way in which we can help to improve the lives of millions of poor farmers, textile workers and craftsmen and women in all corners of the globe. Next time you're out shopping look for the Fairtrade mark on goods, including chocolate, coffee, tea and sugar.Buying fair trade means that you're guaranteed that the person who grew the cocoa and coffee beans, tea leaves and sugar cane was paid a fair price for his or her produce.This in turn means that their families are guaranteed a living wage - and a route out of poverty which will benefit individuals and communities now and in the future.Because of fair trade children can go to school, wells can be dug, hospitals built, teachers, doctors and nurses paid, while the earth is worked in a sustainable way.Fair trade gives people a fair chance to make something of their own lives.
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