SURES


SURES is a Chilean association created in 2006 during the first Fair Trade Meetings, organized by the Chol-Chol Foundation and the AVINA Foundation. It is a network of small scale producers cooperatives of the Bio-Bio Region and the Araucanía Region, in the south of Chile.
Its mission to enlighten south of Chile’s artisans and use fair trade as a tool to overpass poverty, so that they could live dignified of their work.

Priorities

Producers associated to this network are mostly Mapuche women living within a poor family in the countryside. Selling their products bring them the main income of their home, which is a regular - and at least - minimum wage. SURES also work with urban artisans, the majority of them coming from Concepción.
For all members of SURES, Fair Trade ensures a direct relationship with marginalized producers, which is based on justice and dignity, and non-profit organizations play the part of “matchmaker” between these producers and responsible consumers.

Key principles

6 associations are part of SURES Network: