Challenge your knowledge. Challenge your assumptions. Challenge your spending. Challenge yourself. Challenge your friends.

The Fair Trade Challenge is all about you and your effect on the world around you. Have you ever wondered how your food gets from the farm to your table? Challenge yourself to find out. Already know? Challenge yourself to think about every person affected by that process? Already do? Challenge yourself to make their lives easier by examining how you purchase food.

What form your challenge takes is up to you. What matters is that you attempt to make a difference.

If you haven't already, sign up for the Fair Trade Challenge and set out some goals for yourself to accomplish by the end of the term. We will help as best as we can by reminding you of your goals during the term and recognising your accomplishments when the term comes to an end.

Sample Challenges
I Currently...
Don't know very much about Fair Trade. I've heard of it, but I don't know where to get it or how it affects people overseas.
By the end of the term, I want to...
Know more about Fair Trade so that I can decide whether I want to make the effort to buy Fair Trade products. If I decide I want to buy Fair Trade products, I want to know where I can get them and how I can make sure that they are Fair Trade.
My plan for accomplishing this goal is to...
Read "Brewing Justice" by Daniel Jaffee, watch the movie "Black Gold", and attend EWB's Discussion Groups on Fridays at 4:00 PM in the CPH Foyer. I am also going to read the articles about Fair Trade in every issue of the Iron Warrior.

I Currently...
Know what Fair Trade is and why it's good, but I've never really gotten into buying Fair Trade stuff. I'm just used to getting my regular coffee, sugar and spices at the grocery store.
By the end of the term, I want to...
Know where I can get Fair Trade products in Waterloo and start to buy more of my cooking ingredients and coffee Fair Trade.
My plan for accomplishing this goal is to...
Check out the EWB web site for a list of places that sell Fair Trade products in Waterloo and once a month I'm going to do some of my grocery shopping at a place where I can get Fair Trade goods.