Good Taste
Vent are a company who make pens, pencils, and notebooks. They strive to protect and help the environment and to give children from around the world a good education. They were founded in 2014 by Evan Lewis. After only a year and a half they were producing over one million pencils made from recycled CD […]
The incense sticks sold at Good Taste are made by the company Greater Goods, a guaranteed World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) who plant a tree for every order placed. All the incense sticks are made by hand using the ‘masala method’ where the paste is made and applied to the sticks one at a time. […]
Chocolate is one of those universally accepted foods that everyone agrees is sensational, but do you know how it’s made and the secret dark side behind the chocolate industry that all the big companies want you to forget? We set work experience student Oscar, the challenge of finding out all about the chocolate making process […]
Children all over the world lack access to proper education or basic learning tools. In some schools, large groups of children are forced to share exercise books, pens and pencils – as there aren’t enough to go around. Many children cannot attend school at all, because they are fleeing the devastation of war. We must raise […]
Overview This stunning jewellery is created by a small women’s cooperative of rural artisans, living in a village near to Taxco, Mexico. Most of the women are able to work close to home in small workshops and do not have to travel to street markets to sell their products. Skills passed down from generation to […]
We have recently started selling some beautiful products from Swaziland, and wanted to find out more about this tiny country as we seek to better understand the lives of the producers we are supporting. 80% of Swaziland’s population live in rural areas, generally working in agriculture and over half live on less that $2 a […]
Peru “Thank you for the work, for me and my family it has been a blessing from the heavens and really I don’t know how we could have coped without it.” Primi – Hope Jewellery, Peru Hope jewellery is handmade by women living in two shanty towns in Lima and two provincial cities in Peru […]
These quirky creatures are handmade in Zimbabwe by Raina Mazwiembiri and her team. They collect seed pods which have fallen from trees, then paint and decorate them to produce these beautiful birds and animals, each with their own unique markings and poses!
Meet the Kilombero Rice farmers of Malawi | Just Trading Scotland Just Trading Scotland (JTS) support over 700 smallholder rice farmers in the Karonga region on the northern shores of Lake Malawi, by providing a market in the UK for the high quality Kilombero rice they grow. These photos show something of life in Malawi […]
South of Madras near the East Coast of India is a small village, Allangkuppam. In an idyllic setting surrounded by trees and plants of every description and blessed with a plentiful rainfall and a good local supply of china clay, lies the Sivam pottery. Here the master potter and a group of about 60 artisans, […]