When fair trade producers are asked what they need to continue producing the coffee, bananas and cocoa that we enjoy, they say 'more sales and access to finance'. All of us can help with the sales by buying more Fairtrade products but without Shared Interest, which supports producers with credit to finance their crops or production costs, many producers wouldn't be able to continue from one harvest to the next. 

Shared Interest also has a small, but effective, charitable Foundation which supports African and Latin American producers in other equally important ways, which often go unsung - like training or assisting in finding new markets. These interventions, from locally-based support people, have powerful and disproportionate effects. 

That is why I am raising money for the Shared Interest Foundation. Please be generous. Thanks x