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Top Quality, Durable Fair Trade Soccer Ball: Prominently Proclaims RESPECT and Right to Education in 9 Languages. It is eco-certified and certified Fair Trade, living wage and vegan. With every kick, you are supporting economic justice! Size 5.
By Fair Trade Sports, Inc.
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"Master Printers and Cutters create and divide the 32 panel pieces" that make up the size 5 soccer ball.
The Club quality ball is Fair Trade Sports' best combination of a quality and affordability. Synthetic leather and a latex bladder give this ball great bounce and shape. It has 32 hand-stitched panels and is fully compliant with official international ball standards. It is eco-certified and certified Fair Trade, living wage and vegan. Fair Trade means the adult workers who produced this ball received a fair livinng wage - at no extra cost to you! Plus, all after-tax profits go to children's charities.
We are selling the full size 5 soccer ball for ages 12 and up. The highest quality soccer ball says that children have a "Right to Education" in nine languages along with RESPECT prominently displayed.
We ship the balls deflated as is industry standard (and good for the environment). Inflation needles are included on a postcard that includes bilingual inflation instructions.
Here, by the way, is a fascinating look at how the soccer balls are made. Really neat to see.
The sports ball product line for North America from Fair Trade Sports, Inc has several certifications on them, including the first-ever “green” certification for balls. Our eco-certification refers to the rubber that makes up 70% of our sports balls. Our rubber tree forests in India and Sri Lanka have been third-party certified as sustainably managed.
About Fair Trade Soccer Balls and Economic Justice:
Our Fair Trade certification refers to a third party certification that our adult workers are paid a living wage and ensured healthy working conditions. By marrying the Fair Trade certification system to the existing “no child labor” movement, we have created a lasting, positive solution to the root problem behind child labor, which is extreme poverty. By paying the parents a certified Fair Trade wage, they are not forced to put their children to work just so the family can survive.
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From Fair Trade Sports, Inc.:
Fair Trade Sports, Inc is the first sports equipment company in the US to launch a full line of eco-certified Fair Trade sports balls, ensuring fair wages and healthy working conditions for our workers, who are adults.
We are committed to donate all profits after taxes to children’s charities, both domestic and international. Sound familiar? It’s a similar idea to the one behind the Newman’s Own brand you see in the grocery store. We expect to reach profitability by our third birthday in late 2009. Until then, we are donating $1000 annually to these charities, which benefit at-risk children worldwide.
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