Fair Trade

What is Fair Trade?

Fair Trade is about enjoying beautiful and useful gifts handcrafted by skilled artisans living in some of the world's poorest communities.

Why Buy from Diva Gifts?

Every purchase from Diva Gifts ( excludes my little diva products) means people in need have valuable employment, a fair price and a better future.

Take a look at our website and see some lovely, ethically-sourced, fair trade gifts for Christmas, birthdays or other special occasions and show your thoughtfulness to friends, colleagues and loved ones.

Join us in bringing transformation and fresh hope to people living in poverty.

Fair trade seeks to transform the lives of poor producers in the developing world by enabling them to use their skills and resources to build sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their communities. It seeks to challenge injustices in trading structures and practices that so often lead to the exploitation and marginalisation of poor people.

Producers benefit from:

access to new markets
better prices
decent working conditions
regular orders
the development of skills
participation in decisions and
advance payments.

Through commitments to long-term relationships and building the capacity of producer groups, fair trade gives producers the confidence to plan and invest for the future and the ability to compete in international or local marketplaces.

Fair trade also exercises a high degree of care towards the environment.

By buying fair trade products you can also send powerful signals to businesses and governments about your concern for justice and ethics in trade. This consumer pressure encourages other organisations to develop fair trade ranges and challenges businesses to improve their wider impacts on society

Whats Ethical trade?

Ethical trade is about achieving a basic minimum standard of ethical behaviour in trading relationships. Fair trade organisations, whilst supporting many of the principles behind ethical trade, go beyond this and aim to encourage the development of disadvantaged people in the poorer parts of the world.

Ethical trade aims to ensure that internationally recognised labour standards, such as fundamental human rights, are observed at all stages in the production of goods for the UK high street.

Whereas ethical trade tends to focus on minimising the harm caused by trade, fair trade seeks to make a positive contribution to the development of poor communities.