Join La Mesa Fair Trade at the Sustain La Mesa Environmental Festival this Saturday!  

Our booth will feature Fair Trade crafts & women's accessories - including recycled jewelry, t-shirts and lots more.  Here is an opportunity to join the many thousands of today’s consumers who are inspired to add “socially responsible” to their shopping list. To purchase a Fair Trade certified product is to make a difference. The designation signifies that artisans and farmers in the poorest areas of the world have received fair, livable wages for their product or ingredients.

In addition, certain standards must be met in the production process.  These include protecting the environment, building economic sustainability, and providing opportunities for education and health care for families.  Young children are protected from forced labor.

Awareness of Fair Trade is growing in San Diego County and well as in La Mesa.  Stop by our booth and see why La Mesa is a Fair Trade Town and why SDSU is fast becoming a Fair Trade University following UCSD, USD and Pt. Loma Nazarene University.  

Religious organizations support Fair Trade 

locally and nationally.

On World Fair Trade Day in La Mesa, Catholic Relief Services set up a booth for the single purpose of spreading the awareness of Fair Trade.  "CRS" has a local office in San Diego representing the Western portion of the US. 

Other religious organizations include  Lutheran World Relief and  United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Presbyterian Church USA.  Local churches in La Mesa that support Fair Trade include: La Mesa First United Methodist, Christ Lutheran, Vista La Mesa Christian, Foothills United Methodist, St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, OM Center for Spiritual Living and United Church of Christ.