Craft Shop is doing a Fair Trade
Coventry Observer, August 2009
A city shop owner has teamed up with a leading retailer in Fair Trade products.
Pushy Sanghera opened her shop, Craft Culture, in the Lower Precinct last year, following the success of her weekly market stall.
The shop sells a whole host of Fair Trade products from handcrafted African, Egyptian and Thai Buddhas to handmade boxes and healing crystals.
But now, the mother of three, will be working in association with Shared Earth, the UK’s leading fair trade retailer, who provide a range of recycled and sustainable products made from everything from rice sacks and broken bangles to elephant dung.
Pushy has refurbished her shop, and stocked one half with a range of Shared Earth products, and the other with products she has sourced from families in Bali, Indonesia, Kenya and North Thailand.
She said she was excited to be given the opportunity to work in association with Shared Earth.
“All our products are reasonably priced as we have totally cut out the middle man, and go direct to these talented local people, who we believe get a decent wage through us buying direct from them,” she said.
“By buying from us, you are helping to provide much-needed jobs in countries like India, Vietnam, Kenya and Peru and many other countries, for people who are often on the margins of society with little or no other source of income,” she added.
