FAIRTRADE

Squeezed..

Crushed..

• And that’s just the farmers!

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world.

• Martin Luther King

YOUR 30P BANANA

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HOW CAN WE MAKE A CHANGE

Giving workers a fair wage on which they can feed, educate and medically provide for themselves and their children.

WHAT IS FAIRTRADE?

Fairtrade cuts out the middleman meaning more profit goes to the farmer

HOW IT WORKS

ISLAM AND FAIRTRADE

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Islam shares Fairtrade’s vision of a trade system upheld by justice.

Essential to Islam are teachings related to::

Respect towards our natural

environment.

Equity and fairness.

Workers’ rights.

FAIRTRADE IN QURAN

…then make reconciliation between them justly, and be equitable. Verily! Allâh loves

those who are equitable.’

�(ْق'ِس ُط$وا ِإ َّن 'َع(ْد'ِل َو(َأ (ُه$َم(ا ِب اْل 'َن (ْي ْص'ِل ُح$وا ِب) َف(َأ

'َم$ْق'ِس ُط ْيَن( $ُح ُّب= اْل �َه( ُي (Qur’an 49:9) اْلِل

The Prophet SAS said: • ‘Allah shows mercy to a man who is kind when he

sells, when he buys...’

• (Hadith related by Bukhari)

HADITH

Woe to those who give short measure 'َم$ُط(ِفBِف ْيَن( Bِل 'ٌلC ْل َو(ُيthose who, when they are to receive their due from [other] people, demand that it be given in full

' $وا (اْل 'َت �ِذ ُيَن( ِإ َذ(ا اْك اْل�اِس َع(ِل(ى اْلَن(و'َف$وَّن( َت (ِس' ُي

but when they have to measure or weigh whatever they owe to others, give less than what is due!

(َو $وُه$ْم' َأ (اْل َو(ِإ َذ(ا ْك$وُه$ْم' ُن َو�َز(َوَّن( ُر$ $ْخ'ِس ُي

ALLAH WARNS UNFAIR PEOPLE

FAIRTRADE MAKING IT FAIR

Lets make things better

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