Belgian ecologist Eric Van Monckhoven, Renzo Spiteri and his band TRANIA, local funk band Zizza Ensemble, French singer-songwriter Rouage, writers Immanuel Mifsud and Adrian Grima, and Koperattiva Rurali Manikata are among the guests of the fair trade festival WorldFest at the Upper Barracca Gardens on Sunday 22 June between 4.00pm and 10.00pm. Ethnic food and Fair Trade drinks will be on sale from 6.45pm onwards.

A selection of Fair Trade Tea and Coffee has just arrived from CafeDirect and Equal Exchange. More information about the Producers, New Products and Fair Trade Organizations can be found in this document.

Koperattiva Kummerc Gust
invites you to a public talk with
Luz Maria Cuadrado Martinez
from MCCH, Ecuador
this Monday, 19 May at 6pm
Dar Manwel Magri, Tal-Qroqq

Luz María Cuadrado Martínez is the co-director of MCCH, a Fair Trade Producers' Organization from Ecuador. MCCH stands for "Maquita Cushunchic Comercializando como Hermanos" and means "Let us join hands and trade as brothers".

Press Release

World-wide Fair Trade event on Saturday, May 10^th calls attention to the connection between Fair Trade and the environment.  Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust is an IFAT (The International Fair Trade  Association) member and  will be part of this International Fair Trade movement event.

Press Release

Touching diversity! Mediterranean Artisans in a creative dialogue

Artisans from European and Mediterranean countries will be meeting their Maltese counterparts in various local markets to exhibit their crafts while creating new items and sharing their techniques. The artisans will demonstrate how we can experience other cultures through the sense of touch, thus enhancing intercultural dialogue through common ground and an acquired understanding of each other’s tradecraft.

The Involvement of KKG in EYID

KKG has been involved in the project called F.I.V.E. that will take place throughout the European Year of Intercultrual Diaologue, as soon as its proposal for the project was welcomed in Septemebr 2007. It was invited to the two meetings in which all partners involved were present. Since then, it has been in constant communication and dialogue with the project managers, to carry out and prepare the work for its role in the project.

Media Coverage

Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust is awarding a "Fair Trade Users' Certificate" to all those organizations that make use of Fair Trade products during in their offices, place of work or to those who take the initiative to promote Fair Trade.

On the 16th of October the cooperative has awarded a Fair Trade Users' certificate to the following organization for using Fair Trade products or promoting Fair Trade with others. To ensure that organizations make use of Fair Trade products on a regular basis and not solely for promotional purposes the certificate is renewed on an annual basis.