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Our Story

We begin by doing a needs and skills assessment for the community in question. This planning includes a combination of focuses to address the most pressing needs within the community. Our program is then tailored to meet the people where they are, strengthening their position and working toward elevation. Following the lines of Maslow’s hierarchy, our focus is that of self actualization in its purest scene. We take into consideration the current local skills and trades, then commence with teaching and job skills training programs. Whenever possible, our programs are blended with cultural, or local skills that may not have a platform in the changing community. We recognize that micro-finance alone dose not have the capacity to create opportunity for an unskilled, uneducated and immobilized demographic. Through engaging the community with free education and skills programs, Direct Trade helps create an environment of change for one's position within the community. With this change comes an elevation of values, ability, and aspirations, which become the new cultural operating norm for all individuals, without regard to class, race, s*x, culture, or situation. Graduates of our Job/Skills programs will have the option to get involved with small, highly paid runs of production and job placement opportunities. These programs afford them the kick start they may need financially and an experience in a real work environment. This helps to qualify and afford them the tools necessary to find gainful means of employment, or create their own small business. Direct Trade uses the goods produced from the training programs, as well as paid production, to raise funds for the continuation of successive waves of class graduates. The funds are also used to seed much needed social programs that would be beyond the current capacity of the community. These programs are outlined from the start of the initial needs assessment. The students and participants in the training programs are aware that it is their efforts to improve themselves that are directly supporting the much needed community projects (such as Childrens Basic Needs and Community Refuge Centers). The final step is the support from interested parties that purchase the direct trade goods. The most good possible is committed with the gains from product sales. A virtue among Direct Trade supporters is the celebration that one is paying no less than simply what is ”Fair” Trade wages. The Eden’s Rose Foundation creates culturally sustainable social mobility and economic viability through the movements inspired by the guidance of our hearts. Through our Direct Trade effort, we are afforded the ability to continue our work awakening and inspiring the people to greater levels of awareness and achievement.