Creating a better future in Sri Lanka

Choosing fair trade when you're gift shopping this Christmas means you have the opportunity to make many children happy with a single toy. In Sri Lanka, there are seven different businesses where workers make wooden jigsaws, mobiles, people and animals for role play games, and soft cotton dolls and animals. The workers have fair pay and safe, clean working conditions. There are no long hours keeping working parents away from their children, and the workplaces are inspected weekly by Lanka Kade, a member of the British Association of Fair Trade Shops (BAFTS). They're also looking after their environment and local community by using renewable plantation rubberwood, lead-free paints, and hand-loomed cotton, in the toys they produce. So by giving a Lanka Kade toy, you're also providing ethical employment opportunities for Sri Lankan workers, giving their children a better future too.