How Fair Trade Friday is Changing the World

In 2021, Mercy House Global ordered 113 custom products from countries around the globe for our five different Fair Trade Friday subscription clubs. On average, each order consisted of 1000 items, took three months to make, and provided thousands of women around the world with dignified work.

Just one example is from a group in which Mercy House Global played a critical role in its start up in 2018. Here’s what that founder had to say:

“This order will go through the hands of 45 women in five communities in India and create 6800 hours of work. In addition to that, it will allow us to start a sewing program where 10+ women will be trained and then supported with a monthly salary. It will allow us to promote one of our leaders to a full-time salaried sewing supervisor and open a new group with 15+ women in a local slum where women will learn how to kantha stitch saree fabric that will be the fabric for these bags and other products. It will give us the opportunity to promote one of our current women to a leader to lead that new group. This one order will bring a ton of impact!”

One hundred thirteen items could potentially provide 750,000 hours of dignified work in one year alone!