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.

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to the world's poor through education about Fair Trade and engaging in sales of fairly traded goods.
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CCoDP - Sri Lanka - Meet the Fair Trade Artisans

The Central Council of Disabled Persons (CCoDP) was founded in 1981 and currently service over 20,000 disabled and underprivileged people throughout Sri Lanka. Through its training programs, loans schemes and handicraft, garment and wheelchair production workshops, the CCoDP successfully reintegrates disabled and underprivileged people into the community.

The CCoDP is a member of the Micro-credit Summit Campaign, the Rehabilitation International, the Asian Spinal Cord Network Bangladesh, Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development Holland, Disabled Persons Joint Front in Sri Lanka, The International Federation for Alternative Trade UK, The Crafts Centre USA, The Asian Fair Trade Federation. The CCoDP is also accredited by the UN-AD Hoc Committee.

Motto
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have
But of the best leaders
When their task is accomplished
The people say
“We have done it ourselves"

Support these artisans by buying their products in our fair trade store.