Inspiring Awareness,
Promoting Justice
Yobel Market is committed to empowering and promoting the value of exploited, displaced and impoverished people groups of the world through the provision of sustainable economic opportunities by conducting business trainings, contributing to product development, and expanding global marketplaces utilizing fair trade principles. Our hope is that through awareness and equitable trade, marginalized people of the world may be offered the hope of freedom and abundant life.
Our Purpose:
- Provide a sustainable source of income to peoples of the lesser-developed world.
- Encourage socially conscious consumerism to the western world.
- Tell the stories of the people who are being offered hope and freedom through the initiatives of Yobel Market and other fair-trade enterprise organizations.
- Encourage others to be socially aware concerning issues of exploitation of land and people, poverty, world health, unjust war, sex trade, modern-day slavery, and others.
- Provide the opportunity for consumers to purchase a product that is not only beautiful, but that represents a direct impact on the life of another.
- Encourage the western world to allow the eyes of our hearts to be opened in order to expand our concept of neighbor, brother, sister and friend.
We started in 2008 working with our friends in Uganda who were displaced by civil war in the north by helping them to begin their own business making jewelry. Now we work with a number of nations all over the world carrying fair trade items that directly affect lives by empowering people through business and trade and providing freedom from less dignified working situations such as sweat-labor, or work within the sex industry.
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