Annual Fair Trade Awareness Week returns to Duquesne

Megan Garrett | Staff Writer Duquesne’s Spiritan Campus Ministry began its ninth annual Fair Trade Awareness Week on Nov. 28. Events at this year’s Fair Trade Awareness Week included Cookie Wars, a baking competition in which students used only fair trade ingredients, along with a Fair Trade Marketplace in the Student Union. Kate Lecci, a Spiritan minister at Duquesne, said fair trade is a business … Continue reading Annual Fair Trade Awareness Week returns to Duquesne

Campus Ministry embraces global fair trade

By Brandon Addeo | Asst. News Editor A poor Nicaraguan artisan named Gustavo makes jewelry by hand out of bone, horn, shells and coconuts, with the help of his daughters. For a long time, Gustavo would travel an hour each day on a public bus with his product to sell it at the nearest marketplace, not knowing if he would make enough money to support … Continue reading Campus Ministry embraces global fair trade