Probably one of the most profound moments for me was in a mud home in Kenya talking with a woman we were buying paper bead bracelets from for a Fair Trade Friday box. She grabbed my hands and squeezed them tight. She looked me straight in the eyes and said, ‘Tell the women in America that we need them to keep buying what we make. Tell them it is feeding my son and two daughters. Tell them not to forget us.’ I will spend the rest of my life reminding these marginalized women they are not forgotten.”
-Kristen Welch, founder of Mercy House and Fair Trade Friday
Please don’t forget these beautiful women and the families they support through your purchase.
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images are courtesy of Fair Trade Friday
