Thirty years ago, Carola Reintjes introduced fair trade in Spain. Together with other volunteers, she founded the first cooperative company and in 1986 they opened in Cordoba the first fair trade store in Spain. She was director of the World Fair Trade Organisation.
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Georgina Chimali and Saliu Coumba, sustainable fashion to flood the streets with colour
Saliou is from Senegal and Georgina is from Seville. This couple have just launched their own sustainable fashion brand in order to flood the streets of Andalusia, and the whole of Spain, with colour. With colour and with justice. All of the brand Xelcom Prestige’s clothes and accessories are made by Senegalese craftswomen who receive […]
Mecológico: local agriculture and fair trade to promote responsible food consumption
Taking logic to food consumption, that’s the task developed by Montse Castro in Brenes (Seville). She is an environmental educator who, after losing her job, has wanted to spread her consumption philosophy among society through the Mecológico Project, an organic and local market. Montse acts as an intermediary between organic local producers and costumers of […]