World Fair Trade Day celebration at Villa Maria

VILLA MARIA, PA.

Villa Maria Community Center will host a celebration of World Fair Trade Day with free Fair Trade coffee and chocolate tastings, a fashion show, film and more from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

World Fair Trade Day is a global celebration of fair trade on the second Saturday in May each year. Its purpose is to raise greater awareness of fair trade to consumers, so that all trade becomes fair.

U.S. consumers buy more than $1 billion of Fair Trade products annually. Fair Trade helps producers get paid a fair wage, and work in healthy conditions.

Villa Maria Community Center sells Fair Trade products in its in-house store and works with co-ops from Southern Hemisphere countries to help them meet their community needs and educates consumers through activities and events throughout schools and communities.

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