More Australians are buying Fair Trade chocolate this Easter, according to international aid agency Oxfam Australia.
Sales of Fair Trade Easter chocolate through Oxfam’s shops across Australia are 64 per cent higher this year than last year, for the four weeks leading up to the Monday before Easter.
Australians wanting to give to others this Christmas can support poor communities simply by buying beautiful handcrafted gifts, according to international aid agency Oxfam.
Australians wanting to give to others this Christmas can support poor communities simply by buying beautiful handcrafted gifts, according to international aid agency Oxfam.
If the gifts are fair trade, such as those in Oxfam’s shops, they will ‘give twice’ by helping the communities who produce them become more independent and sustainable, while also making wonderful, unique gifts in their own right.
International aid agency Oxfam is urging Australians to consider more than their own Dad this Father’s Day, with a Fair Trade gift.
Oxfam Australia today announced its alternative gift catalogue Unwrapped had raised over $4 million, breaking all previous Christmas sales records.
Christmas gift shoppers have six days left to purchase Oxfam Unwrapped gifts so that cards will be sent in time for Christmas.
Sales of Unwrapped gifts are up fifty percent on last year indicating that Australians are increasingly generous.
Corinne Grant launches Oxfam Unwrapped with a ‘live’ stall at the Victoria Market