Fair Trade 3: Lutheran students visit Nicaragua coffee farmers - Ministry Videos

2009 Fair Trade #3: NMU Lutheran Campus Ministry & Nicaragua Coffee Farmers

Northern Michigan University (NMU) students Lisa McCarthy of Greenville, WI and Sarah Swanson of Rapid River, MI are giving presentations across the Upper Peninsula on their recent Lutheran World Relief trip to Nicaragua during which they met with coffee farmers and learned about fair trade.

This is the first of several excerpts from their presentation.

In part three, the students describe how the women of Nicaragua are treated with respect, the importance of families and the environmental protection efforts of one Nicaragua’s organic farmers.

The NMU students among 13 Americans on Lutheran World Relief Study Tour entitled NICARAGUA: Pour Justice to the Brim from January 5-12, 2009

The group visited the capitol of Managua, and the cities/villages of Matagalpa, Jinotega and La Reyna.

Fair trade ensures fair wages, and protects women's rights and human rights plus fights poverty.

Arriving at the peak of the coffee harvest, the students visited many aspects of the industry including dry mills, wet mills and coffee cooperatives.

They spoke on January 13, 2008 to a group at the St. Mark's Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Marquette, MI.



Related links:



LWR Study Trips

http://www.lwr.org/study



Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) at Northern Michigan University (NMU)

http://www.nmulutherans.org

http://www.nmulutherans.org/newsletter.html#fragment-5

http://www.lakesuperiorinterfaith.com



Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)

http://www.elca.org

Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS)

http://www.nglsynod.org

http://www.nglsynod.org/about-our-synod.html



LWR Study Tour on January 5-12, 2009 - NICARAGUA: Pour Justice to the Brim:

http://www.lwr.org/study/nica



Fair Trade

http://en.wiki