Fair Trade

All our products are available at very modest, highly competitive pri= ces (often the lowest commercially available online) to encourage you to support fair trade and help the less fortunate in Africa. We are able to offer such reasonable prices as we are supplied directly from our extensive network of artisans throughout eastern and southern Africa whilst managing and operati= ng the US-based online store mainly with volunteers. As the objective is for e= ach artisan contractor to achieve sustainable employment as a minimum, we also offer wholesale pricing, so do not hesitate to contact us to become a reseller. Your purcha= se creates employment opportunities, strengthens, sustains informal enterprise= s as small as one person but more commonly one extended African family business,= and provides ongoing micro loans to them in their effort to be liberated from poverty.

Kwaze-Kwasa [USA] Inc. general guiding principles of fair trade are:

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   African artisans receive fair local market-related prices for their products or wages to produce them;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   a secure online market place where consumers can confidently= and securely make responsible purchasing choices and easily communicate with the online vendor;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   consumers can conduct their business on a secure platform without compromising their ID and credit information;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   concerned consumers understand the needs of others less fortunate than them;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   the global market includes principles of honor and justice f= or all people;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   honorable trade between willing parties who treat others how= they would want to be treated;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   provides artisans with the means to bring their families (and communities) out of poverty;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   the business partnership between t= he parties working together bypasses exploitive middlemen giving the OEM better profits and local economic empowerment;=

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   better profits means a rise in disposable income that has a positive effect for the community as a whole;<= /span>

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   forbids child and sweatshop labor but recognizes that cultur= ally African children may be an integral part of the family production team often learning about their culture, heritage, and traditions in the process;=

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   African artisans do not have to compromise their artistic talents and are encouraged to develop products that consumers demand;<= /o:p>

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   must enable the sustainable development of their local enterprises with organic growth;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   empowers the artisans with market-driven sales and affords t= hem opportunities to develop a wider range of goods;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   strategies for the artisans to adapt to changing market tren= ds;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   when practical and conditions permit, artisans who produce environmentally friendly goods that conserve natural resources for future generations are encouraged and given preferential access;=

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   recognizes the artisans lack of access to formal financial facilities by providing micro credit loans and prompt payment for goods delivered;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   makes full or part payment for products using the cash equivalent fair barter exchange of food, clothing, tools, consumables, supplies, etc if specifically requested by the artisans;<= /p>
<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   encourages ongoing job-training and skills development;=

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   makes contracts with socially responsible African artisans w= hose status is not necessarily impoverished and who want to contribute to the le= ss fortunate in their communities by creating employment or assistance with increased sales;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   makes decisions based on human rights, greatest need, poverty status, product demand, ability and reliability to produce, social and community involvement and sustainability;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   make no decisions based on political affiliations, gender, r= ace, creed, religion, ethnicity, or physical disability;

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   economic justice recognizes that the human family is worldwi= de; and

<= span style=3D'font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-f= ont-family: Wingdings;color:#342214'>v   gives back to the communities by funding their socially responsible grassroots programs from the net profits generated from sales a= nd donations.

Registe= r as a supporter and receive a minimum 5% discount on all retail purchases for life with promotion code: “orphans.”