Our Fair Trade and Earth Friendly Mission & Owners

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Our amazing handcrafts and gourmet organic treats make great gifts. You'll get information along with each purchase about Fair Trade and how you're contributing to the effort to Leave Better Footprints.

Meet the Artisans

Trace a hopeful trail of footprints.
From women recyclers in Gambia to small cocoa farmers in the Dominican Republic, Fair Trade brings you closer to the products you eat, wear, and absolutely adore.

Our Footprints are the impressions we leave on the earth, a unifying symbol of its people, and a trail for future generations to follow. In our society today, we're not always proud of our footprints. Thus, our mission is to leave A Better Footprint.

Specifically, A Better Footprint was founded to help some of the world's poorest artisans and farmers. We strive to create a positive impact, or footprint, on the community level and create trails of hope for future generations, especially in some of the world's poorest countries. We accomplish this through Fair Trade sales and education. Our commitment to sustainability also shows that while we want the human impact of our company to be great, we try to reduce our environmental footprint.

"When you saw only one set of footprints in the sand, it was then that I carried you..." -Footprints Parable

Miranda Paul, Co-Founder
Miranda K. Paul is a certified teacher and young entrepreneur who loves to travel. She has taught English, Spanish, and Language Arts in several states and is enjoys her role as a mother to daughter Soleil. Among her favorite places in the world is The Gambia, the smallest country on Africa's mainland. Miranda taught in The Gambia in 2003, where she learned a lot about Islam, African languages and oral history, and current challenges facing Africa. Since founding A Better Footprint (originally Worldgoods Fair Trade) Miranda has received significant press coverage, and was inducted into the Notre Dame Academy Alumni Hall of Fame only eight years after graduating.

Baptiste Paul, Co-Founder
Baptiste Paul is a graduate of Bucknell University with degrees in Environmental Science and Political Science. A native of Saint Lucia, a small Caribbean island, Baptiste is excited about projects that contribute to preserving the earth’s natural beauty, and that contribute to economic stability in developing countries. Baptiste hopes that his efforts are one of the ways he can contribute to a more accepting society, “A better place for our kids to grow up than the one we knew.”

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