The experience and the friendship with the Andean communities gained in these last 10 years through the responsible tourism, lead us to start this new experience: “ETIKA”.
Etika Fair Trade is an organization dedicated to the fair and solidarity trade in Peru.
Our work directly involves a group of local producers in the upper Andean area of Cusco and Puno.
We support the communities supplying them raw materials, quality control systems, searching new trade channels and trade strategies.
Etika Fair Tradecontributes to a sustainable development giving better economic conditions and warranting the rights of the producers, who otherwise will be left on the margins by the multinational companies.
Our products are certified and entirely packed in the production country.
PHILOSOPHY
Etika Fair Trade aims to be an alternative trade form in the Peruvian market, different from the conventional one: we would like to promote economic equity, vocational training and access to the market to all the disadvantaged producers, for this reason we warrant a fair return and working conditions, avoiding speculative intermediation and supporting self-development projects.
PRODUCTS
In Etika catalogue you can find two broad categories of products: Alpaca’s wool products coming from the community of Puno’s plateau and textile and ceramics produced by the Andean community of Cusco’s and Ayacucho’s rural areas.
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Community Cuyo Chico, Pisaq >> July Textiles, Puno >> Alpaca Puno, Puno >> Asociacion Quinua, Ayacucho >> Community Sarhua, Ayacucho
FAIR TRADE
The Fair and Solidarity Trade is an economic partnership based on communication, transparency and respect that aims to a major equity in the international trade.
- The Fair and Solidarity Trade contribute to a sustainable development giving better economic conditions and warranting the rights of the producers, who have been left on the margin of the market, especially in the Southern world.
- The Fair and Solidarity Trade’s organizations (as Etika Fair Trade), supported by consumers, are actively involved in the technical assistance to the producers, in sensitizing the public opinion and the institutions and in the development of informative campaigns whose aim is changing the rules of the international trade.