The Preda Fair Trade Project
People’s Recovery, Empowerment and Development Assistance (PREDA) Foundation
Preda Fair Trade, poverty alleviation and ending child marriage.
Economic development for poor communities through Preda fair trade mango fruit projects combats poverty and hardship. It helps poor farmers in Zambales and Mindanao by buying their mangos at high fair prices and providing development projects like clean water systems in their villages.and providing thousands of fruit tree saplings to them every year for planting.It also mitigates climate change and global warming.
This poverty alleviation project for the Aeta Indigenous people of Zambales helps as many as 740 poor farmers and their families and sees that their children are going to school. It also implements nuti-sandwich distribution to many children in a large school for indigenous children.
It is certified as a Fair Trade organization by World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) with the official name PROFAIRTRADE Development Agency SC Ltd. on the WFTO Registration Certificate
Profairtrade, and The Preda Foundation, a Social Development Organization are separate organizations but work closely together one helping the other to benefit the beneficiaries.
A Preda supported association of small mango farmers in Mindanao turns their mangos into chemical free, low sugar fair trade dried mangoes for export. Any additional earnings from the Preda fair trade is donated to the Preda children’s homes to help support the child victims.
Preda Fair Trade gives families a better income, improves the quality of their lives, provides rights education in their 16 villages, and has educated them, saved victims of child “marriage” and worked with the people to end child marriages to older men. The project reduces migration of their children to the cities as beggars. In the cities they are frequently victimized by human traffickers and forced to be child sex workers. Prevention is better than cure.
The mango project pays each farmer a dividend bonus payment after harvest and during the past twenty years the communities and people have grown in self-reliance, have values of human life, cooperation, love of peace, justice and self-esteem and human dignity.The work goes on.