Fair trade Print IT! Awards 2012 Winners

The plan successfully links Fairtrade and schools, some of which may have achieved Fairtrade status and others who may be new to Fairtrade, to involve them in the complexity of creating a promotional piece and the technology that’s necessary to produce it too.

Every year the students impress us with their imagination and professionalism. Once again the Print IT! Awards 2012 have been a real success.

Elliot Bannister, who took part in the Print IT! Awards in 2006 and has now become a Fairtrade supporter, says Graphic design is a daily feature in our lives and the Print IT! Competition makes us aware of the process that take place to produce any sort of excellent design. 

It trains us to think conceptually and practically, and because these processes take place in the context of Fairtrade, our awareness is also drawn to the lives of farmers and workers around the world. 

Print IT! Encourage us to use our graphic design skills for valuable purposes, and I'm confident that with all cohorts of students, our creation will be one step closer to achieving trade justice.

Fair-trade Certification Programmed

The aim of the Fair for Life Social & FairTrade Programme is to make sure fair and up relations between producers and their cooperative or constricting companies, between employees and their employer, between vendor and buyers the world market as at the same time ensuring performance of standards.

Social liability Certification confirms that workers enjoy good working setting and that producer groups have well working, accountable internal structure. The Fair for Life programmed builds on widely known baseline standards such as the conventions of ILO, SA 8500 and the social criteria of IFOAM.

Social & Fair-trade Certification includes all social standards, but focus as well on trade relations. Fair-trade means long-term and trustful collaboration between partners, transparent price setting, open consultation and prices that allow for social improvement of the concerned communities. Though the Fair for Life Social Fair Trade program does not limit fair-trade to developing countries and marginalized producers, fair-trade plainly aims at improvement of the social condition of those groups who are most poor in the individual local setting.