Palestine Fair Trade Association
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Women Micro-Loans
Palestine Fair Trade Association is committed to empower women and other excluded and marginalized groups and build their capacities for civic participation through economic opportunities. The micro-loan project is designed to enable small producers, and people with little or no resources, especially women, to take part in the production process and benefit from fair trade returns.
Examples of women cooperatives that have been organized through the Micro-Loan Project include four cooperatives that produce couscous and Za’atar with a total of 22 women and one cooperative of 5 women who produce sun-dried tomatoes. This program has been made possible by the support of grassroots organizations abroad. Thanks to the generous support of Resource Center for Non-Violence, Santa Cruz, CA (www.rcnv.org) Project Hope, Canada (www.projecthope.ps), and Islamic Aid, UK (www.islamicaid.org.uk) Organizations abroad may extend direct support to this program by funding a cooperative or one woman to become a producing member in a cooperative. To extend support to the microloan project, contact PFTA at
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PFTA empowers members by providing them with the capacity to produce and earn income, a market for their products, and increased social benefits through participation in cooperative and collective work. Micro-loans are typically extended to female members of producing cooperatives in amounts that range between $500 and $1500 per individual participant. These funds are used by beneficiaries to purchase supplies and begin producing according to fair trade guidelines. PFTA, and its exporting member Canaan Fair Trade, (