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Upcoming Event -  The Vishwa Show, Pune is the next destination!!!

 From 21st to 24th December, IRFT will be participating in the Vishwa Show at Pune. IRFT will be representing ESAF – Prerna Lifestyle, Earthcare Designs and Grameen Shramik Pratisthan with their eco-friendly products at the exhibition. The Vishwa Show, is an international platform for sharing ideas, showcasing products and creating awareness. It is an exhibition cum sale for Eco-Friendly products under the theme of “Go Green”. 

Please support the initiative, visit the exhibition and purchase New Year gifts for friends and family. 

IRFT at the Christmas Bazaar- 16th and 17th December, 2011

 IRFT participated in the Christmas Bazaar with an aim to promote Domestic Fair Trade and providing market access opportunity to SHARE MarketPlace - a Fair Trade Organisation. The Annual Xmas Bazaar was organised by Bandra Gymkhana for the people of the city to celebrate Christmas cheer. More than 100 stalls sold traditional homemade Christmas food and sweets, Christmas decorations, apparels, music CD’s etc.

 SHARE MarketPlace is an innovative fair trade, not-for-profit organization increasing economic opportunities for low-income women in India and empowering them to bring about changes in their lives, their families and communities. With a wide range of Fair Trade apparel and ladies bag, they earned a good value for their products.


IRFT explores producer organizations in Bhopal, Chennai and Pondicherry to promote Fairness in Trade! 

The Community Business Support team visited Bhopal, Chennai and Pondicherry based producer organizations to extend the additional services of IRFT within the challenging environment of domestic demand for products’ quality and quantity. 


Participation in The Economic Times “Mega Trade Fair on Corporate Gifts, Stationery, Office Products and Writing Instruments”

IRFT has successfully participated in The Economic Times “Mega Trade Fair on Corporate Gifts, Stationery, Office Products and Writing Instruments” held in Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai from 16th – 19th September, 2011. 
Marginalised Artisans from five different ogranisations of Chennai, Gujarat and Mumbai were represented by IRFT with an objective “to provide a corporate platform of repute so as to represent products from reputed producers organizations and more importantly show-case what the customer needs as against what we have for the customer”.
The organizations were so selected that could match corporate expectations in terms of quality and quantity and within the scope of corporate gifting for stationary products. They were Evangilical society Action Forum (ESAF), Sahaj, Om Creations, Self Help Center (SHC) and PRAYAS. 
Post exhibition follow up to ensure product orders have been understood by the producers, follow up to buyers for samples, pricing, dead-line dates, etc. have been undertaken by IRFT extension service cell to ensure that the order is actualized. 


    

 

Quality Council of India membership
 

IRFT has been admitted as a Organisational Member under the category of NGO’s of Quality Council of India in accordance with the Membership Rules of the Council.


IMPACT - DW Workshop Mumbai 2010

IRFT conducted a training programme on Decent Work in Agriculture for the Implementing Partners of Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) on behalf of the Fair Labor Association (FLA). Better Cotton Initiative aims to improve the environmental and social impacts of cotton cultivation worldwide and make it more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. Decent Work forms an important component of this and in turn is a concept framed by the ILO and aims to offer women and men the opportunity to work with 'freedom, equity, security and human dignity'. IRFT being the local partners of FLA imparted a four day training programme in Mumbai between the 13th– 16th of July, 2010 on Training of Trainers who are engaged in implementing BCI’s projects in India. The training was interactive and stressed on the concept of ‘learning by doing’. Thus the training was significant in its delivery of creative communication tools, role plays and other PRA tools and techniques to ensure whole hearted learning and dissemination. Case studies and short films were also used for better and simpler understanding of issues on a macro and micro level to understand the impact of Decent Work.

ENABLE (Enhancing Agricultural Labour and Environment Standards) Consultation, Hyderabad 2010

FLA – Bayer Consultation on Child Labour, Hours of Work and Wages:

On behalf of the FLA, IRFT was involved in inviting participants to engage in a multi stakeholder consultation on Child Labour, Hours of Work and Wages. Bayer Crop Science along with the FLA organized a four day consultation programme in Hyderabad to discuss their current position on Child Labour, Hours of Work and Wages in the Agriculture Sector. The Child Care Programme of Bayer crop was a major part of the consultation and addressed the attempt to reduce the incidence of Child Labour in their farms in cotton seed production in the last five years. In depth discussions on FLA’s definition of Child Labour, Hours of Work and Wages and indicators for the same were also deliberated upon by a cross section of well represented organisations and forums working in the area of child labour.

IRFT at Kala Ghoda
IRFT has been successfully participating in concern ongoing mela for the last five years. Every year IRFT provides a platform to a grass-root producer / artisan groups who are associated with us, from different parts of India, to showcase their products in the direct market in the exhibition/mela. This year IRFT had given the same platform to a producer group, from Latur, Maharashtra.
The organization has got first hand experience on urban market. They sold their products worth Rs. 66,000.00 in five days. They have received many contacts of interested people who would like to buy directly from the organization.

This year we aimed to establish the " = " (equal to) sign as a symbol, 'Fairness in Trade', the right to a fair chance. The vehicle to promote this messaging was a "Dice" with six dots, on every side, unlike the regular dice. The messaging was “When we play a game called Ludo, we all aspire for six, because six gives us a chance to start the game, move forward and a chance to grow. Similarly, business is also a game. A dice with six dots in each side, will get six only whoever play the game in the supply chain, right from the farmer/ producer, the middle man, the brand owner as well as the consumer. IRFT choose 6 dots as it represents the highest number, thus progression to the next level and a Fair chance to grow. ”
Shop For Change - Fair Trade launch & Press Release
Look for the Shop for Change Fair Trade label on Tribe Mother Earth t-shirts at Mother Earth Stores
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Domlur 2nd Stage, Tel 080 65397957/ 65397958.
Kolkata - Shop No. B002, South City Mall,
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Tel 033 40072171.
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New Delhi - Gallery No. 8, Rajiv Gandhi
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