Equal Exchange Products
In the Social Hall!

The UU Service Committee’s Coffee Project is a collaboration between UUSC and Equal Exchange, a worker-owned, fair trade company based in West Bridgewater, MA. Through the Coffee Project, SFUU can buy fair trade coffee, tea, sugar, chocolate bars, and other tasty treats in bulk which we offer for sale in the Social Hall. We have incorporated a slight increase over the bulk price to accommodate brewing Equal Exchange coffee and tea for social hour and to cover any losses when someone accidentally either doesn’t pay or doesn’t pay the correct amount. Any profit beyond that goes back into SFUU’s budget to fund projects in keeping with our mission.

Why Should You Consider Fair Trade Products?

Offering Fair Trade items for sale is part of our commitment to compassionate consumption. Equal Exchange’s mission is to “build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.”

Through Equal Exchange, SFUU challenges the existing trade model which favors large plantations, agri-buisinesses, and multinational corporations. The fair trade movement promotes an alternative that prioritizes small-scale farmers and connects consumers and producers through information and education. Equal Exchange products are sourced from small-scale coffee, tea, and cocoa farmer cooperatives worldwide, which allow farmers to better support their families, protect the environment, and strengthen their communities.

Equal Exchange at SFUU’s Block Party

Mission Earth, UU the Vote, and Social Justice had a combined presence at SFUU’s first block party. Information about reducing plastic was given out, get-out-the-vote letters were written, and Equal Exchange products were sold.