Because of the great success and delight BuzzFlash readers had in eating the dried bags of pineapple and mango (separately packaged) that we offered last week, we are offering a delightful mixed bag of tropical dried fruit that includes banana, mango, coconut, papaya.

And it's a Fair Trade item from Level Ground Trading Fair Trade, straight from the Andes. You can read more about the wonderful Level Ground organization here. They do tremendous work to provide livable wage jobs and training, in this case in Colombia.

Fruandes is the result of a Level Ground Trading funding and MCC (Mencoldes, Colombia) relief efforts. Seed capital, business expertise and training were supplied to the Fruandes project in order to establish a company which would provide a fair market price for fruit to small scale farmers and employment for disadvantaged women in Bogota Colombia.

Level Ground Trading president, Hugo Ciro and co-founder, Tracey Ciro visited Fruandes to understand the needs of the workers. Fruandes makes every effort to employ marginalized women who are the sole providers for their families. The women have requested funding for further training and skill building. Level Ground Trading is ensuring this need is met.