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Message From a Teenage {World Changer}
Guest post by Madison Welch 2 years ago, I was just like every other teen girl. I loved fashion and cute clothes, and any extra money I had was spent on weekend shopping trips to the mall. I would shop the sale racks at my favorite stores, like H&M, Forever 21,...
Winter 2018 Fair Trade Friday Is All That
We started 2018 off with a fair trade bang with our beautiful customized box. The unique Batik Boutique scarf was wildly loved for all it's options, along with a practical virtual calendar from a partner in India and the aromatic linen spray from Thistle Farms...
Winter {Fair Trade Friday}Wonderland
It's been #happymail this winter for our monthly Fair Trade Friday members! Some amazing custom items made an appearance in mail boxes in thousands of homes. November Main Box Every item in this month's box was custom and created exclusively for our members! Gorgeous...
Falling For Fair Trade
Crisp autumn air. Falling leaves. Pumpkin spice everything or not, we love fall. And fall's Fair Trade Friday clubs did not disappoint! Heralded by our club members as our best months yet--we have to agree. Main Fair Trade Friday Club: September Colorful kitenge bird...
Introducing Girl Boss Box
We are excited to be offering a new fair trade subscription club, the Girl Boss Box, to help women grow their business through fair trade gifts and support women in poverty at the same time. Around the globe, women are working to provide for their families. They are...
A Response to Hurricane Harvey
Mercy House Global is located about 40 miles from downtown Houston. Our red barn that houses one of our retail stores, thousands of dollars in Fair Trade Friday product and hundreds of volunteers a month, escaped storm and flooding damage. The other retail store had...
Happy 3rd Birthday, Fair Trade Friday
Three years. Thousands of boxes. Countless jobs provided. Lives changed. We are changing the world and looking cute doing it! It's the unlikely story of how God is connecting women around the globe to help each other. We are so grateful you are a part of this story....
We Love Summer
Nothing screams summer like our gorgeous "hello sunshine" custom tote from Joyn. It was a huge hit and we love that Fair Trade Friday & Mercy House Global is the only place you can get it! Coupled with our sweet paper bead earrings from our dear women Kenya and a...
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This Might Not End Global Poverty But It’s Where We Should Start
Today we went to Dandora dump. It is one of Africa's largest landfills is a sprawling dumpsite, over 30 acres, at the edge of several Nairobi slums. The massive dump was deemed full in 2001. "Yet it continues to operate, and people at the very bottom rungs of the...