Business Description
A Fair Trade Retailer.
Ten Thousand Villages in Hagerstown, MD, is a fair trade retailer of artisan-crafted home decor, personal accessories and gift items from across the globe. Featuring products from more than 130 artisan groups in some 38 countries, we are part of a network of over 390 retail outlets throughout the United States selling Ten Thousand Villages products.
We seek to provide vital fair income so that education and health care are a reality for these families.
Nothing is made using child labor, sweat shops, or large factories.
As one of the world’s oldest and largest fair trade organizations, Ten Thousand Villages has spent more than 60 years cultivating trading relationships in which artisans receive a fair price for their work and consumers have access to distinctive handcrafted items. We seek to establish long-term buying relationships in places where skilled artisans are under- or unemployed, and in which they lack other opportunities for income. A founding member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), Ten Thousand Villages sees fair trade as an alternative approach to conventional international trade.
Address & Contact
- Street:
- 13625 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Postcode:
- 21742
- City:
- Hagerstown
- State:
- Maryland
- Zip:
- 21742
- Phone:
- 301-797-3020
- Website:
- http://www.hagerstown.tenthousandvillages.com
- Category:
- Local Business
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