Vision: A Just World Aim:  To build Just and Sustainable Communities through Fair Trade

Objectives

Partnerships

• To engage in effective trading partnerships according to fair trade standards
• To choose trading partners who work with the most disadvantaged producers
• To assist producers to move from poverty to self reliance

Change

• To increase awareness of trading injustices and its impact on our trading partners
• to campaign for change to unjust trading systems
• To promote fair trade as a positive alternative

Sustainability

• To maximise sales of fair trade product
• To trade in such a way that the Trade Aid Movement and its partners are financially sustainable
  
  
  

Guiding Principles

We will

• respect and support trading partners and their aspirations
• understand the broader issues that affect our trading partners
• provide healthy and safe workplaces in which staff and volunteers are valued and respected
• work cooperatively and encourage participation at all levels of the movement
• honour the Treaty of Waitangi, respect the environment, and support gender equality
  
  

Trade Aid Movement Charter September 2004