the “fair go” office – (3) Fair Trade tea & coffee

In our design business we have a principle which we call fair go. We believe a “fair go” should be given to the world we live in, and people in developing countries who are struggling to make a crust also deserve a fair go.

In developed (rich) countries like Australia we usually don’t realise the impact we have on poor people in other countries. We demand fair wages for the work we do and rightly so. At the same time we want to pay the bare minimum for the products we buy, not usually thinking where they came from, as long as they’re cheap. Read more