Queensland Fair Trade Collective

Moselle Clothing is about beautiful clothes with a beautiful story.

Moselle exists to provide a better life to women for on a journey to freedom from situations of modern-day slavery. Moselle exists to help create a different story while inviting others to join us in a journey of hope and freedom.

• Every piece of Moselle Clothing's clothing range is uniquely made by women on a new journey of freedom from situations of modern slavery.
• Moselle partners with employment rehabilitation organizations that exist to offer 'alternative' employment for women in prostitution or exploitive situations.
• Moselle employs women- all the products are made by women and go to support women.
• Moselle works in two countries- Thailand and Cambodia.
• Moselle's newest range of products are made with certified fair-trade and organic cotton.
• At least 30% of the sale of each item goes directly to the producer who made it. Moselle is a 'non-for-profit' and has no full-time employees but is run by volunteers.

You can 'Wear the Story of Freedom' from Moselle Clothing at this years Fair Trade Christmas Market 3rd & 4th December, or visit them at the Moselle Clothing website.

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Operation Uganda is dedicated to rescuing orphaned and vulnerable children in Uganda.

Based in Kampala capital of Uganda, Operation Uganda was founded in 2004 by the Barton family from Brisbane.

Our range includes African jewellery and crafts bought strictly from local markets in Uganda and Kenya. Our most loved items are our paperbead necklaces and bracelets made by groups of widowed, abandoned, and single mothers. These women face huge struggles to provide for their families on their own.

The Empowering Women skill-based course teaches single women the skills needed for producing a product and the management of their own business. We have also created a new course on producing tailored products, which are being added to our range. Once the women have completed the courses, we then become their first customers. This keeps them in income from day 1, at rates above average wages. It is a life-changing opportunity for many of them, and most importantly, it preserves their DIGNITY.

For more information on child sponsoring, joining our Rescue Fund from $10 a month, hosting an African Jewellery Party, staffroom presentations, or if you would like to become a consultant, please contact Angie Kehl at angiekehl@hotmail.com or visit the Operation Uganda website.

You can also meet Operation Uganda at the Fair Trade Christmas Market, 3rd & 4th December.

Oxfam Shop Garden City will be representing Oxfam at the Fair Trade Christmas Market, 3rd & 4th December.

Oxfam Shop is the trading arm of Oxfam Australia, and it is the only wholly owned subsidiary. With 19 shops in major shopping centres across Australia, Trading generates over $10 million in Fair Trade sales annually which plays a major role in supporting Oxfam in achieving its External Change Goal – Economic Justice through growing the fair trade market in Australia.

Our unique Fair Trade products are sourced from individual workers, craft bodies and fair trade organisations in developing countries, mostly in South East Asia, southern Africa and the Pacific Rim. By trading with approximately 100,000 people around the world we bring long-term benefits to their communities including ongoing employment and a sense of independence.

We are committed to developing ongoing relationships with our suppliers rather than just making one-off purchases, and we go out of our way to be sensitive to a community's cultural, religious and artistic traditions and beliefs. We help producers with product development and commercial skills so the workers can become self-reliant in a wider market, and we pay as much as 50% of the order value in advance for groups that require capital.

Oxfam Shop believes in a fairer world and is registered as a Fair Trade organisation by the World Fair Trade Organisation. We also share WFTO's goals, such as:

• Commitment to fair trade
• Transparency in business practices
• Ethical workplaces
• Equal employment opportunities
• Concern for people and the environment
• Education about and advocacy of Fair Trade.

You can learn more about Oxfam at the Oxfam website.

Playing Fair is an online kids store with an ethical difference: every item that Playing Fair stocks is Fair Trade.

All of our products are sourced through regional members of the World Fair Trade Organization, and we are members of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand. The independent official endorsement of our suppliers ensures that the people who created our garments received a fair price for goods produced in decent and humane conditions.

Our Fair Trade not only says "no" to sweatshops, child labour, and economic slavery, but "yes!" to income security, safe working conditions, and the opportunity to grow and develop one's skills. When you shop with us, you are directly improving the lives of producers in developing countries, and you are providing a practical demonstration for the children in your life of what your values are and how to live them.

We have clothes for newborns, babies, toddlers and young children, for boys and girls. We stock groovy, ethnic, world-citizen styles from Susu Mama, who is a British Association of Fair Trade Shops recognised fair trade importer. We have beautiful, playful, contemporary styles from HOPE, who are members of the Fair Trade Federation. And we have handcrafted shoes, toys and accessories from Sana Hastakala, who are a founding member of Fair Trade Group Nepal and members of the World Fair Trade Organisation.

Playing Fair delivers Australia-wide, and the climate impact of each individual delivery is neutralised by the purchase of carbon offsets on your behalf. Customers in Brisbane also have the option of making a free local pickup.

Please visit the Playing Fair website to find out more, or we look forward to meeting you in December at the Fair Trade Christmas Market!