Pro Fair Trade Finland chose the participants to the kick-off seminar for the Fairtrade Action Network from a range of excellent applications. Over 50 volunteers from 13 countries took part in the event. The aim of the event was to learn more about Fairtrade and to discuss future co-operation internationally.

We hope that the participants pass on the materials and ideas from the seminar through their networks in their own countries. The participants for this seminar came from Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Hungary, United States and Canada. See what was discussed in the seminar small groups!

Minna Mannert

My name is Minna Mannert. I am the coordinator for the international Fairtrade Action Network at Pro Fair Trade Finland office, Helsinki. I'm also in charge of the local Fairtrade volunteer trainings in Finland.

I have worked and volunteered for several environmental and development NGOs organizing training, information and campaign work. During years 2004-2006 I worked in FinnChurchAid to launch the youth advocacy network Changemaker to Finland.

Because of my work I have travelled to see the realities of dalits and landless people in India and the indigenous people in Paraguay and Brazil. Seeing and writing about their lives made me realize even stronger, that we need changes of attitude and action here in the North. Fairtrade is an important way to make a positive change in your everyday life!

I am interested in creative and participatory methods in development education and campaigning. I have studied theology, development, philosophy and education and am still finishing my master's thesis at Helsinki university. On my free time I like to travel, play music (guitar and violin), have fun with my friends and go swimming and cycling. I love the nature and the seaside of my home city Helsinki.

Liana Foxvog

Liana Foxvog (26) is the national organizer of SweatFree Communities (www.sweatfree.org),
a U.S. network of grassroots campaigns that organize for a just global economy by using institutional purchasing as a lever for worker justice. Liana played a critical role organizing the No Sweat Connecticut coalition and the Massachusetts Sweatfree Campaign. Previously she was a Youth Organizer Fellow with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in New Hampshire, where she educated and mobilized high school students to ask presidential candidates to commit to supporting only those trade agreements that guarantee workers' rights. Now she resides on AFSC's National Peacebuilding Executive
Committee. She is also a trainer with Strategy Training and Organizing Resources for
Youth (STORY), and sits on the advisory board. Liana has worked in youth leadership and
community development summer programs in the Dominican Republic, and has participated in several labor rights delegations to Central America. She has a bachelor's in political
science from Reed College and is working toward a master's degree in labor studies at
University of Massachusetts-Amherst. (Note: "Sweatfree" originates from the term
"Sweatshop-free", referring to workplaces where labor rights are respected.)

Kasia Szeniawska

My name is Kasia (short for Katarzyna). I am from Warsaw, Poland and I totally love the city I live in. The only thing I miss there are more opportunities for a sustainable and ethical lifestyle. That's why in 2005, together with a group of friends, we have founded an NGO called Grupa eFTe Warszawa. We are promoting Fair Trade and ethical consumption through various projects and actions. Not only eFTe keeps me busy. I'm just starting a new job in Polish Humanitarian Organization in a project concerning ethical fashioning industry. Apart from that I study African Studies and Cross-cultural Psychology. It's a lot of work, but I don't let myself get glued to the computer. I play ultimate frisbee and learn jazz dance. And when I am not doing any of this, I just love hanging out with
friends, traveling, taking photos and then watching them at home over and
over again.

Daria Zebrovska

My name is Daria. I come from Poland.
I do a lot of different stuff in my life. The most important is music. Just not to go to work too early I decided to study….. and so, firstly I thought, I would become a diplomat and then I thought I would become an ambassador in Africa – that’s why I combined international relations with Ethiopian studies. Well, it turned out that diplomacy wasn’t not my destiny. I don’t like to be stuck in one place, I love meeting people, I love to work with people and I like my work to be visible and when it really has an effect on others, I love to do projects for youth and my local community. This is how I slowly started to work in NGO in Warsaw, then my friends convinced me to establish one in my hometown – small Sokolow in the eastern part of Poland. Now I spend few days in Warsaw working there for UNDP and on the weekends I work in Sokolow. At the same time I love Africa, Ethiopia especially and I love coffee – so this is how I got interested in Fair Trade.

Meghan Sweet

Hello! My name is Meghan Sweet. I'm a student at the George Washington
University in Washington DC and I represent United Student for Fair Trade. I
am member of USFT's coordinating committee and I am specifically responsible
for our website and tech related projects. USFT is a really rad organization
that works to consolidate and coordinate the power of the over 150 active
student Fair Trade organizations in the U.S. We do leadership development
and capacity building, primarily through international exchanges and
skill-building conferences. We also serve as a resource to student
affiliates looking for anything from strategic campaigning advice to
internship opportunities. The vision that drives our work is a world in
which the global economy is based on human relationships, transparency,
democracy, equitable access, community autonomy, and shared power through
cooperative organizations. And of course, we rock the Fair Trade movement!

Varje Ojamets

My name is Varje Ojamets. I've born, lived and worked in Pärnu, Estonia all my life. Pärnu is on the shore of the Baltic Sea. It has about 50 000 citizens and it's about 120 km from Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.
I've been married for a long time, I have 2 children and 2 teenaged grandchildren. By the certificate i'm a cultural worker and a dance teacher, but for the past 15 years i´ve worked as consumer adviser and consumer educator. Besides all that I've been a chairman of the Pärnu's Consumer Union.
I've gotten most of consumer protection subject training from Finnish Consumer Protection Union. I've been in Finland on a 2-week training in the year 2000. The latest consumer protection trainings were in Brussels, in the consumer organisations training center "TRACE" . There were 3 classes: managers course, lawmaking and lobby work. I first heard about the Fair Trade about 5 years ago and that was also thanks to the Finnish Consumer Protection Union co-workers. I read the Finnish Fair Trade webpage profoundly and made a schooling material based on the webpage. The first presentation that I made with that material was in a city called Võru and after that I've presented it in many other organizations in Pärnu. The local newspaper called "Pärnu Postimees" has done several articles based on my materials.
On my leisure time, especially in summertime, I like to ride a bycicle, sunbathe and go swimming in the beach. We have a nice beach in Pärnu and at summer thousands of visitors are sunbathing and swimming in there every day. I also like working in the garden and planting vegetables and herbs in my little garden, so I have lots to do in the summertime.

Krista Maidla

I am Krista Maidla
krista.maidla@mail.ee
www.tarbijad.ee

I work for the Consumer Protection Advisory Centre of Tallinn from year 1996.
My responsibility is to counsel consumers. It involves solving problems of consumers who come to the consumer centre and also counselling them by phone and e-mail.
I am also a member of the Board of the Consumer Protection Society (CPS). CPS is a member of Estonian umbrella consumer organization – Estonian Consumers Union. I have participated in several Estonian consumer projects, where I have run some of them and also participated in some international one.
I am educated as an economist.

Lucy Whittle

Lucy Whittle has been the Coordinator of the Waterford One World Centre since 1995. Since assuming this position, Ms. Whittle has raised the profile of Fairtrade issues across the wide range of the Waterford community. In 2004, she was elected chairperson of the Waterford Fairtrade Action Group, a group which was composed of volunteers from local schools, business and community organisations. She successfully led the Action Group’s successful campaign to achieve Fairtrade City status for Waterford in 2005.

Catja Kaloudis

My name is Catja Kaloudis and I am from Sweden. I am a teacher but for the moment I am working as a headmaster in a school for 157 children in the ages of 6-10 years. My union, the Swedish teachers Union Lärarförbundet, is a Fairtrade member in Sweden.

I am an ambassador for Fairtrade in Sweden and a educator for those who likes to become an ambassador of Fairtrade. An ambassador is a person who like to learn more about Faitrade, sometimes serve coffee in shops and talk about Fairtrade, sometimes gives lectures to schools, associations – mostly for those who already are members of Fairtrade. One an ambassador – there is no obligations. You’re doing everything of free will.

In my free time I am engaged in a lot of Fairtrade issues. For the moment I am lobbying for my town Hudiksvall to become a Fair Trade City. I am also participated in a great exhibition in the town of Söderhamn in two weeks. And so on…

I would like to create some material for teachers to be used for children in an easy way to present /work with the Fairtrade issue in the schools and preschoools. Maybe I can get some ideas when we all meet.

I have three children, 2 boys and one girl and they are half Greek. I am not married but I was married to a Greek man, there for I have a Greek name.

My best!
Catja Kaloudis

Liga Krastina

My name is Līga Krastiņa, I am a board member of the global education organization ”GLEN Latvia”. As a part of international co-operation, called Global Education Network of Young Europeans (GLEN), we organize project-based stays for young people in developing and transition countries in Africa, Asia and South East Europe. The work in projects abroad is followed by global education activities in Europe in order to share the experiences of GLEN scholars and to raise awareness for global issues.
In 2004 I worked in a GLEN project in Ghana on awareness raising of HIV/AIDS. After returning I have been engaged in the coordination of the GLEN cycle in Latvia. I am involved in global education activities (eg. seminars for youth, presentations, photo exhibitions etc.), touching also fairtrade, basically explaining it and encouraging to buy fairtrade products.
I study sociology and work in social research.

Ervins Labanovskis

Ervins Labanovskis (27) is from Riga, Latvia. He has a masters degree in Social sciences and has worked in the Defence ministry of Latvia. He is also actively involment in the Green movement of Latvia.

Tanja Hausmann

My name is Tanja Hausmann. I´m a 28 year old German woman living in Freiburg, a very cosy town in the south of Germany, close to the Black Forest.
I´m a political scientist with my focal points in development policy and peace and conflict research. My subsidiary subjects at the university were sociology and communication science.
After writing a desk study about the operation of the German army in Afghanistan I now live on selling toys in a toy shop – a job that in no way has something to do with political science and research.
In my free time I work honorary in the editorial office of the magazine iz3w. The abbreviation iz3w stands for "information center 3. world", located here in Freiburg. The iz3w is one of the most important independent magazines catering to north-south themes in the German speaking world. We deal with various topics ranging from globalization - migration and racism, development politics and theory, ecology and media, literature, sport and music as well as with social movements.
Moreover I’m a hobby journalist, writing about cultural events and concerts in and around Freiburg and especially about the local football team “SC Freiburg”, playing in the Second Division.

Since this spring I’m engaged in working for “TransFair”, the German fairtrade organisation. With two other women I’m responsible for promoting the idea of fair trade in the area Freiburg. Sometimes we organise stalls on the market or in supermarkets and inform about fairtrade and offer fairtrade products like chocolate, orange juice or bananas for testing.

Romain Vignes

I’m 31 years old and I was born in Paris.
I’ve studied science (mathematics, physics and geological subjects) until Master1 of Environment Science. After school I founded a cultural association in 2000, Alternactive (www.alternactive.org) to give Brazilians and Africans drums lessons for adult and children, to organise events and travels in Africa around cultural practice and sports…
But while I was constructing this organisation, I worked as a computer engineer for 3 years, so that I could be volunteer and financially independent.
After 3 years I tried to build my job in my organisation. During 2 years Iwas involved in this full-time job to develop new projects and to look for financial support, but that failed.
Then I started to search a job in a N.G.O and fortunately found it in Max Havelaar France.
I’m now president of Altern’active. For my hobbies, I play rugby and really like riding sports as snowboard. I play the guitar for myself and Brazilian drums in a band.
My job in Max Havelaar France is really exciting, I’m travelling a lot, to meet lots of people and help them or convince them to promote fair trade.

Sini Maury, Chairperson of Pro Fair Trade Finland (Helsinki)

I’m Sini Maury from Helsinki. I’m the chairperson of the board of Pro Fair Trade Finland (Repu) this year, and involved in many things in our organization, e.g. the International Fairtrade Volunteer Network project and the Ethical Principles in Public Purchasing campaign. Last year I spent eight months in Ecuador, working as a volunteer teacher in a school for indigenous children, which was very motivating and a great experience. I also visited a Fairtrade banana cooperative in Ecuador and met some producers, and I was impressed what a difference Fairtrade makes in their lives and how it empowers them.

Professionally, I’m a psychologist, specializing in research on human memory at the University of Helsinki. Besides Repu, I’m active in two other NGOs as well, so I don’t have much leisure time, but when I do, I just stay with my fiancé and watch movies and Korean TV-series. I also like to read books and study foreign languages. At the moment I’m working on Korean (which just kills my brain), since my fiancé is from South Korea.

Ingrid Svanfeldt

My name is Ingrid Svanfeldt and I´m a member of Pro Fair Trade Finland/ Reilun kaupan puolesta Repu ry.
I´m 31 years old and a journalist. Since the beginning of 2007 I have my own company, which produces short current affairs tv-programs and organises videocourses. I live in the countryside (in Sjundeå, 50 km west of Helsinki) with my husband Stefan and my daughter Freja (1yrs, 4 months). I´m a Swedish-speaking Finn. 6 % of the population in Finland speak Swedish. I try to participate in various Fair Trade- events that Repu organises, lately I have been organising this event. In 2003 I attended a 1-year Fair Trade course in Sweden and that summer we travelled to Tanzania and Kenya to meet with some Fair Trade producers. That inspired me to start working more for Fair Trade. In my spare time I also enjoy nature and sports like aerobics, badminton and handball.

Mia Nikkilä

My name is Mia Nikkilä and I come from Finland. I`m finishing my Master´s in Speech Communication by the end of the year 2007 and after graduating I´m going to get experience in development cooperation in Africa or India as I was selected for the development traineeship program by AIESEC last year. I have been an active member of the Pro Fair Trade Finland since 2006 and before joining the local Pro Fair Trade Group I promoted Fair Trade in my university e.g. by coordinating tasting and organising lectures. During my first year in Pro Fair Trade I coordinated Fair Trade Weeks in my hometown Jyväskylä and during the year 2007 I´ve been a Member of the Board for Pro Fair Trade Finland. My main interest lies in campaigning and lobbying for development issues. For example I´ve been planning and realising campaigns on development and trade issues with Service Center for Development Cooperation in Finland since 2003 as well as lobbying the Members of Parliament within Globbyist Network. In Pro Fair Trade Finland my main responsibilities include e.g. promoting and lobbying for ethical public purchasing and for Fair Trade Communities. Besides voluntary work an important part of my life is music. Voluntary work in civil organisations is close to my heart and having experience in development cooperation has been one of my dreams for many years. I think that seeing the reality in developing countries give me more insight and tools for working in civil organisations in Finland. I could say that I´m an idealist with a sense of reality. As I see it, for a change to happen one need to have an idealistic view of the world, in a sense, that one believes a more fair and just world is possible.

Sanna Maarianvaara

My name is Sanna Maarianvaara and I'm thirty years old. I'm Master of economics and business administration. I'm living in the centre of Helsinki, but I'm dreaming of move to the country side some day. Fair trade issues are very close to my heart and I'm as active as possible with Pro Fair Trade Finland Repu. I've been planning International Fair trade seminar with our fantastic group of international issues. It is very familiar work for me because I'm working as a training manager at Arla Institute and my job is to organize and plan seminars and trainings. My workplace Arla Institute is a training and development center for visually impaired people. I'm also member of the board of Pro Fair Trade Finland. When I have leisure time, I love to read and travel. I'm interested in different countries and cultures and really looking forward to meeting new people in the seminar!

Antti Kylänpää

I am a 22-year-old Finnish fair trade volunteer from Tampere, which is an town of 200,000
inhabitants located 150 kilometres north-west from Helsinki. I study international
politics at University of Tampere. At the same time, I am also working as a part-time
local employee of Luonto-Liitto, which is a Finnish environmental non-governmental
organization for children and young people.

In my free time I am the local co-ordinator of fair trade volunteers in Tampere, trying
for example to make Tampere the first fairtrade town in Finland. I am also in the board
of the volunteer organization this year. After all that I also try to find some time for
theatres, both the traditional theatres and movie theatres, reading and cycling.

Aleksi Halme

I am Aleksi Halme, 20 years old and studying Political History at the University of Helsinki. I have been a member in Pro Fair Trade Finland about three years and acted in Helsinki group about a year. I am interested especially in the differences between the certification schemes and affecting for Fairtrade in the parishes of the Lutheran Church of Finland. I will participate in the seminar “as a representative of the press”: I will write an article about the seminar to Repu-liite, the newsletter of Pro Fair Trade Finland. Therefore, be careful: any word that I hear may be printed.

Anni Weckström

My name is Anni Weckström. I study International law at Åbo Akademi University and am currently completing my master’s thesis on women’s right to health. I got acquainted with Fair Trade and its activities when I was the chairperson of the Development Committee for the Student’s Union at Åbo Akademi. I joined Pro Fair Trade Finland’s International team in august 2007 and starting from October 2007 I will act as Pro Fair Trade Finland’s intern.

Antti Vähä-Sipilä

I was involved in Finnish Fair Trade volunteer activities from about
2001 until 2006, as a resident geek taking care of the (previous) web
site and mailing lists. Since then I've taken on other
responsibilities that do not allow me to be active in Fair Trade
volunteer work any more, but I still closely follow what is happening,
and perhaps once a year, actually even do something. I remain a firm
believer in the cause and would like to see an international network
to emerge that uses the Internet in creative ways to share ideas
and material, and to activate people to be activist consumers."

Paula Sankelo

My name is Paula Sankelo, and I’m a student at Helsinki University. I’m majoring in Physics and Finnish literature, with Development studies and Gender studies on the side. I’ve been involved in the Fair Trade movement for a few years now; first just as a buyer of products, and later on as a volunteer. So far I’ve volunteered a bit erratically, whenever I’ve had the time and energy to do so. Now that I’m about to graduate, I’m hoping to develop a more constant and steadfast involvement in Fair Trade issues. I’m also volunteering at an organization that helps battered women, and I take interest in environmental issues and human rights issues in general.

I’m eager to promote the Fair Trade policies at my University campus. I’m also interested in the communal purchasing policies in all cities of Finland. I wish my tax money didn’t support non-fair trade or sweatshops in any way. I also think buying Fair Trade shouldn’t stay just one option among all others: we should strive for all international trade to be more fair. I am hoping for a future where Fair Trade is the norm; it doesn’t necessarily need to be Fair Trade in the exact current form, as long as people aren’t exploited and the environment is not harmed. I believe in solidarity between workers, purchasers, NGO’s, researchers and policy-makers to make this goal eventually come true.

Helena Kyrki

I’m a 23-year-old university student from Tampere, Finland. I study International Relations as my major subject and Economics and Spanish, among others, as my minor subjects. I’m interested in women’s rights’ and minority rights’ issues and, obviously, in Fair trade. During my free time I do fitness Thai-boxing, meet friends, read books and spend time online. I did a student exchange to Spain a year ago and learned to love the Spanish language, culture and way of living. Other things I really like include interesting photography and art, postcards, Finnish sauna, slow traveling, the sea, new places and spontaneous ideas.
I became interested in Fair Trade issues during my first year of studies in Tampere University. I volunteered in World Shop Tasajako (specializing in Fair Trade items) and also took part in organizing the annual “Origin known ­– The Fair Trade Fair” in 2004 in Tampere. I have only been a member of Repu, the Pro Fair Trade Organization in Finland, for a year, so I’m looking forward to the International seminar as a chance to learn a lot of new things about the Fair trade system and how best to promote it. During this year of membership I have been active in the local Tampere group of Repu. During last winter I took part in the team who lobbied the local candidates in the parliamentary elections for Fair trade issues. Since then, I’ve been actively involved in our group’s biggest project at the moment: trying to persuade the citizens and decision-makers of Tampere into pursuing the title of Fair Trade City in the near future. In addition, I’m in charge of co-ordinating visits to schools to teach high school students about Fair Trade issues.

Janica Anderzen, Pro Fair Trade Finland

(Helsinki)

Moi! My name is Janica Anderzén and I'm a 27-year old student, originally from Tampere. I'm finishing my MA on Latin American Studies at the University of Helsinki and I hope to graduate next year. As my career choise implies I'm pretty interested in Latin American issues, particulary art and politics of certain regions and over the last years I've been building my parallel life in Mexico :) I've been an active member of Repu since 2002. During my five years of Fair Trade volunteering I've had the opportunity to participate in many great activities: I've also been a member of the board of Repu and worked as a coordinator of the Helsinki local group. Three years ago I visited several co-ops of small coffee producers in south of Mexico, which was a very interesting experience. See you soon!

Enni Koskela

Hello there,

My "career" as a fair trade volunteer in Finland has not started yet, but is about to now. I have a degree in third world and development studies (from London Middlesex) and through my studies I became interested in fair trade issues. I also lived and volunteered in Angola and Costa Rica, so working with people from different countries and backgrounds is always very enjoyable to me. I have just started a Master degree in intercultural encounters in Helsinki University and hope that I will learn more about development and peaceful interaction between different cultures.

I wish you all a very pleasant weekend in Suomenlinna!

Lasse Hyytiäinen

I am Lasse Hyytiäinen. My profession is a neuropsychologist. I work in a private institution nearby Helsinki.
I've been first a member in the Union of Finnish World Shops since 1995 and later a member of Finnish Fair Trade Organisation.
I'm also a member of Finnish Green Party.

Timo Toimela

Timo Toimela (42) is the well known association activist
with international interests in " Midland Capital ( Tampere ) "
Area in Finland. Timo is one of the ten key volunteers
of Pro Fair Trade Finland Tampere Local Group. His main task there
is to offer the bridge between all the common activations in Fair Trade
world and all the single volunteers related with PFTFTLG.

In his civil life Timo Toimela has small partnership consultant
business, which objective is to support the food cluster
enterprises to find out the best-possible location-economics
business environment, and also to find the most practical
logistic chain, subcontructor and subproduct manufacturer
partnershipments, mainly in souhtern Finland.

Timo Toimela has spent two remarkable season in abroad during
his life. First time he had the challenge to live in Setúbal,
in Portugal, and on the later 1990's in Washington, D.C.,
in the United States of America.

Timo Toimela things that this " Fairtrade Action Network " must
be the top of the world volunteer concept. This concept also seems
to collect unbelivieble high class multinetworked participants
from the four continets around world. Now Timo can be sure that
all that time he has focused onto Fair Trade Volunteering
has not been time waste.

There is not any people without addict in this Tellus.Timo's destony
is to be the Fair Trade Coffeinist!

Elisa Zenari

"My name is Elisa and I´m from Verona, Italy. I first got in touch with fair trade as a customer, I was fascinated the first time I went into a worldshop, so I wanted to learn more about it. During my exchange year in Madrid I got the oportunity to volunteer for one of the Intermon Oxfam worldshops. The experience made me realize the importance of fair trade.

Back in Italy I wanted to continue with fair trade, and looking around for a while, I found the great opportunity to do the civil service for Fairtrade Italia. During the year of the service, we realized a big educational program among children and I also got to work in one of Padovas worldshops.

During this year I have learned a lot about Fairtrade, as an organization and what it really is. The experience, which is now about to finish, has given me a lot and I would like to continue contributing to fair trade and its cause. I hope this seminary will be a good start."

Anders Wallner, Green Party of Sweden

Alexander Chamberlain, Young Greens of Sweden

Richard Ellis, Fairtrade Wales

Anu Eslas, Roundtable for Development Co-operation in Estonia

Riina Kuusik, Fairtrade Project Manager, Estonia

Rita Gazdag, Hungary

Krista Maidla, Consumers' association, Estonia

Erika Paloveer, Consumers' association, Estonia

Juliette Shimkin, USA

Linn Therese Mostad, SPIRE Norway

Linn Therese Mostad (23 years old) from Norway. Her educational background is from social anthropology, development and environmental studies and social economics. Her master degree will be within technology, innovation and knowledge (TIK). Linn Therese has been a member of SPIRE, the youth organisation of the Norwegian development fund (www.utviklingsfondet.no), since May 2007. She restarted SPIRE’s Fair Trade Group and has ambitions about making a Norwegian group that can contribute in an international network.

Caroline Baekkelund Ellingsen, SPIRE, Norway

Caroline Bækkelund Ellingsen (25 years old) from Norway. She has finished her bachelor in social psychology. In addition to subjects within psychology, her educational background includes subjects from social anthropology, development and environmental studies and pedagogy. Caroline has been a member of SPIRE, the youth organisation of the Norwegian development fund (www.utviklingsfondet.no), since July 2007. She is an active member of SPIRE’s Fair Trade Group and thinks an international network are exciting as it will have capability to make a global difference and a world with equal rights - Fair Trade.

Terhi Leppiniemi, Pro Fair Trade Finland

(Helsinki)

Sampo Villanen, Pro Fair Trade Finland

(Helsinki)

Kai Schirdewahn, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Helsinki)

Maria Katajisto, Pro Fair Trade Finland

(Helsinki)

My name is Maria Katajisto. I’m from Helsinki. I’ve lived in Ireland for eight years and graduated as a Master of Science in Equality Studies from University College Dublin in 2005. I have since worked with development and human rights-related issues in Ireland, Finland, India and Nepal. I’m currently working with a Finnish NGO in Helsinki. My Fair trade ‘career’ first started about four years ago when I volunteered with Oxfam Ireland in organising Make Trade Fair campaign. I joined the Pro Fair Trade Finland international team last May.

Hannu Sjöblom, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Tampere)

Siru Sihvonen, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Helsinki)

Enni Koskela, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Helsinki)

Anna Pörsti, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Helsinki)

Jenni Hamara, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Helsinki)

Ellinoora Leino, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Turku)

Marlon Richert, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Turku)

Satu Korpela, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Seinäjoki)

Outi Moilala, Pro Fair Trade Finland (Helsinki)