Dear jhon
How are you? Im fine, I want to tell you a thing that I learnt today in the market. I was shopping, when I saw a chocolate with the fairtrade mark. It was 10 percent more expensive than a comparable chocolate. I investigated what fairtrade is and I found that it is an organization that helps poor people. This organization consists in that fairtrade helps the farmers or a poor producer to internationalize its products. Fairtrade keeps a 10% of the value of the product of the product and the producer with the 90%. With that 10% this organization use it to help other people, and etc. It's like a circle.
This process is helping a lot of families in all the world. The poverty is downgrading. I also found a video of fairtrade and I saw how this program is helping a lot of people. It was of a family that produces sugar in Africa. Before this program they didn't have nothing, but after they have schools, good food and I can say, a better life. I cannot explain to you the hapiness of that people in the video, if you have time watch it. Also a good thing is that the small producers in a year after, can convert in a big industry. Can you imagine that? It's amazing. The poverty will end in a few years if this program progress more. So I will compromise to buy all the products that I need with the fairtrade mark, and I recomend you to do it too. We can do a competition. The person who hase more fairtrade marks wins
Regards
Martin Achondo
