Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale

Ten Thousand Villages
6th Annual Festival Sale in La Crosse
November 20 & 21

Looking for beautiful and unusual holiday gifts that give back to our world? You can feel good about shopping at the Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale

Fair Trade handicrafts for sale include textiles, pottery, onyx, wood carvings, jewelry, toys, and a wide variety of gift and holiday items. The Festival Sale is a unique mission project, not a fund raiser, and every penny of sales benefits third-world artisans and their families.

Friday, November 20
Noon - 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 21
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church
Fellowship Hall (lower level), 233 West Avenue S, La Crosse
Free admission and parking

Since 1946, Ten Thousand Villages has supported the work of tens of thousands of artisans in more than 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Artisans, who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed, earn sustainable income through fair trade.

As a founding member of the International Fair Trade Association, an organization that includes over 200 members in 55 countries, Ten Thousand Villages is part of a worldwide movement striving to improve the livelihood of disadvantaged people in developing countries through the expansion of fair trade.

Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit, self-supporting alternative trading organization (ATO). ATOs are non-governmental organizations designed to benefit artisans, not to maximize profits. They market products from handicraft and agricultural organizations based in low-income countries.
Learn more at http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/home.php

For more information, contact:
Carol Lloyd Neill - 787-4536 (day), 782-0282 (evening)
First Presbyterian Church - 784-4248

(press release from Ten Thousan Villages)