SURES

Short description: Fair trade organization

SURES (Red de Comercio Justo del Sur, South of Chile Fair Trade Network) 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.

## Contents

* 1 Priorities
* 2 Key principles
* 3 Members
* 4 See also
* 5 External links

## 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

* Defend and promote fair trade in the south of Chile
* Encourage democratic producers’ association
* Give value to the Person as much as to the product, thanks to a transparent marketing.

## Members

6 associations are part of SURES Network:

* Relmu Witral Native Association, made up of 120 Lavkenche women from Tirua, all traditional textile weavers.
* Ngen Cooperative, formed of 130 Mapuche women from Curarrehue who created 9 different workshops.
* The Chol-Chol Foundation supports almost 200 Mapuche craftswomen and craftsmen from the Araucanía Region.
* The Work for a Brother Foundation (TPH) enables artisans from Concepción to promote and sell their products.
* Hands of Bío Bío applies itself to creating a place dedicated to craftsmen who are excluded from the main distribution networks.
* Ñimi Kafé Pu Domo Native Association regroups 150 women weavers from 6 communities of the Araucanía Region.

## See also

* Fair Trade
* World Fair Trade Organization
* Mapuche

## External links

* Comercio Justo Del Sur
* Chol Chol
* Relmu Witral

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