What practices does Fair Trade encourage?

What practices does Fair Trade encourage?

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Fair Trade organizations deal with organizations that value the contribution of the members. Fair Trade encourages working in co-ops that are democratically run, and that way people that are working have a stake in the future of the organization, and have some sort of say in what the money that the organization makes is allotted to. It encourages community building in those co-ops; it encourages people to reinvest in their community, whether that's through environmental sustainable practices and production, or whether that's through working to employ different disadvantaged producers even in their own area. There's a workshop in Kenya called the Bombolulu Workshop that specifically employs disabled artisans who are blind or have a different disability. It encourages this practice of supporting, even as we think of buying things from developing countries, from disadvantaged producers, it encourages the practice of those groups supporting the disadvantaged producers even in their own community, employing people who would otherwise have a hard time finding a way to make an income.