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Tara Project
Coordination, based in Delhi, of twenty or so workshops self-managed in the north of India. Production of fancy jewellery, textile, curio, ... The coordination is notably financing social programs for street children.
Andines
In the fair trade sector, Andines is the main French importer of south-American craft : nearly 1000 products, a lasting relationship with 140 workshops, a permanent concern for balance between economic efficiency and militancy.
Fair trade and alternative economy
Le monde Diplomatique
An introduction by an article of the Monde Diplomatique
Oxfam
The main network of fair trade shops in Belgium : 250 point of purchase, 8.000 voluntaries, awareness campaigns corresponding to their militancy.
Ethnik.org
Located in southern France, this non-profit aims at encouraging North-South exchanges through the use of new technologies and at designing fair trade platforms. Wonderful website.
Peoplink
American NGO that offers practical support to a worldwide producer network, notably by helping them in the realisation of their websites and presenting the products. A mine of information to make up some contacts.
European Fair Trade Association
The European federation of fair trade actors. Availability of a lot of data that enables to make up one's opinion and to nurture one's thinking on the subject.
Le carrefour de l'économie sociale
Addresses, subsidies, research centres, contest possibilities, ... the reference website of social economy in Belgium.
Alternatives économiques
Website of the magazine with the same name. Not a lot of articles, but a god selection of websites and recent economic publications.
Utopies
Agency promoting corporate social and environmental responsibility. Utopies is working for information and sentitisation, but also as a strategy consultant.
Those we like
Alter
First of all press agency specialised on social issues, it has enlarged its scope of activity to research and help to the creation of social economy firms. Possibility to subscribe to a good quality newsletter on corporate citizenship, made in common with Groupe One, www.groupeone.be .
Handicap International & MSF
They don't need such a link to be known. However amongst other reasons to support them : their action against antipersonnel mines (www.icbl.org ) or their fight for a generalised access to medicines (www.accessmed-msf.org), without any doubts a model of tomorrow's citizenship actions.
Mouvement de la société civile
Non-profit looking for the development of civil society. A programme of monthly meetings in Brussels and useful bibliographical references.
Action Birmanie
The promoters of this website are well known for having forced a university's president, but also administrator of Total Belgium, to sort things out : invest in a dictatorship as a firm's boss and give a doctorate honoris causa to a dissident as an academic... The art of asking good questions.
