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Mother's Day Roses Raffle
THIS RAFFLE IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO ALL OF THOSE THAT HELPED TO SUPPORT CUT FLOWER WORKERS!
FOUR WINNERS WERE CHOSEN ON MAY 5 AND WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MAY 12. WE WILL RECOGNIZE THE WINNERS ON THIS WEB PAGE AND ALSO SEND AN EMAIL TO ALL THOSE THAT ENTERED.
Enter to win a dozen fair trade roses delivered to your mother!
This Mother's Day, celebrate by sending a special gift to a loved one, while also helping to improve working conditions for women in the Latin American rose industry.
There are 40,000 flower workers in Ecuador and over 100,000 in Colombia, working to grow, harvest, and package the roses and carnations sold in the United States. More than half of these workers are women, and many are single mothers. They commonly face labor rights violations including sexual harassment, pesticide-related illnesses, and forced pregnancy testing. ILRF's Fairness in Flowers Campaign works to address these problems and promote better and safer working conditions for women and men in the cut flower industry.
How to enter: Each entry costs $10. With a $30 donation, you will not only get 3 raffle entries, but we will also send an organic fair trade chocolate bar from Equal Exchange and a special card letting your loved one know that a donation was made in their name. FOUR winners will be chosen at random from the raffle to receive a fair trade bouquet. Official raffle rules can be found here.
Winning entrants will be notified by May 5 and the 4 lucky recipients will be congratulated on the ILRF website and e-newsletter on May 12.
Proceeds will benefit ILRF's Fairness in Flowers campaign, which promotes safe and decent work in the cut flower industries through consumer education and support for local organizations that provide support for workers in Latin America. Your donation will help more workers access legal support and health and safety trainings, and will help ILRF and its partners push producers and retailers to provide real protections for flower workers and the environment.
About Fair Trade roses: Most Fair Trade certified roses come from Ecuador and Kenya. In addition to certifying compliance with labor and environmental standards, workers receive a premium to invest in community development. More information at http://transfairusa.org/content/flowers.
Gallery
Workers in the cut flower industry experience long hours and low pay. Here is a photo gallery that show what the greenhouses look like that produce the flowers we give to our loved ones.
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Video
This interview was done in November 2006 in Colombia by the US Labor Education in the Americas Project. Stella is a flower worker at a Dole plantation just outside of Bogota.
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Credit: Hanh Nguyen