This new amazing video cuts to the heart of fair trade and ethical shopping.  When you are the consumer you have power, you can use it for good.  Buy just one fair trade item this year when doing your Christmas shopping.

From Trade as One website (www.tradeasone.com/justone):

“Think about this: Just One fair trade purchase from every American churchgoer this Christmas would lift one million families out of abusive poverty for one whole year.

Let’s make sure that when gifts are given, they speak of the sort of world that Jesus came to show us—one where the last is first, where the poor are included, the sick are healed, and the captive is set free.

In choosing Fair Trade, we apply the principle of loving others as we love ourselves to how products are sourced. We buy things we need, and give a job and a future to people living in desperate poverty.

The Just One idea revolves around one startling statistic: Just One Fair Trade purchase from every churchgoer in America would lift one million families out of poverty for one whole year.”