{"id":5512,"date":"2016-03-20T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T03:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2016\/03\/20\/fair-trade-at-your-fingertips-with-tenthousandvillagescom\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T03:30:16","slug":"fair-trade-at-your-fingertips-with-tenthousandvillagescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/fair-trade-at-your-fingertips-with-tenthousandvillagescom\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair trade at your fingertips with TenThousandVillages.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"story-byline\">By Jen Leo <\/span>|<span class=\"story-titleline\">Special to the Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Forgot to buy your friend a gift from your last trip to Africa? Or maybe you&#8217;d like to fill your house with cool handmade gifts from India. TenThousandVillages.com has your back. The well-established nonprofit program works with artisans around the globe to sell their handicrafts and, in turn, give those who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed a fair wage.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s hot: Shopping fair-trade items from around the world. I liked looking at the collections to get a quick scan of the products. The Fiesta collection led me to a recycled paper 6-inch-square hot mat, good for keeping warm dishes or moist tableware from marring a wood surface; it&#8217;s from the Women&#8217;s Multipurpose Coop in the Philippines and costs $8. The Verde collection led me to some noteworthy birdhouses from Haiti (a natural vine creation at $16) and Bangladesh (a &#8220;bird condo&#8221; at $14). There are a variety of items to choose from, including jewelry (tiger stone pendant from Peru for $68), furniture (a dragon bamboo side table from Vietnam for $78), pottery and wood (a serving bowl from Kenya carved from wood, $38). The website is intuitive, and you can use the &#8220;Gift Ideas&#8221; tab or even create your own gift registry. If you&#8217;d rather shop in person, see the long list of retail stores across the U.S. and in Canada. (In this area, there&#8217;s a store at 496 S. Lake Ave., Pasadena; [626] 229-9892.)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s not: The website accepts credit cards, but the online ordering process would be easier if PayPal or Google Checkout were offered<\/p>\n<p>Source : www.newsday.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jen Leo |Special to the Los Angeles Times Forgot to buy your friend a gift from your last trip to Africa? Or maybe you&#8217;d like to fill your house with cool handmade gifts from India. TenThousandVillages.com has your back. The well-established nonprofit program works with artisans around the globe to sell their handicrafts and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}