Building a Fair Trade bridge between the developing world and the west.

Welcome to the home of Tribes and Nations! We invite you into ‘our space’ to explore with us the world’s trade challenges and the dynamic answers offered by fair trade. The pages herein are designed to offer you the means to make a meaningful difference to those at the bottom rung of production in the developing world.

Whether you are just beginning this journey, already committed to buying fair trade or promoting to one and all, we want to enable and encourage you! Our pages introduce you to the issue of poverty, fair trade, and offer you many tools (Youth Resources, Videos, Posters) and systems (Fair Trade Starter Pack, Alternative Trader, Coffee Fundraiser) to make individual and communal education easy. Via the web site and our newsletters, we will keep you in touch with current fair trade news and events, up coming promotional opportunities and new products as they are released.

“All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence” Martin Luther King Jnr

Our fair trade partners on the ground in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa and other regions bring us quality goods without the high price of exploitation. Their business models vary from charities to small businesses to promoters of multiple micro enterprises. Spanning this diversity lies one clear thread, to promote the producer above profits. Whether WFTO certified or a small charity, this common love for the poor is the ultimate ‘added value’ they offer to us and which we are proud to pass onto you.

From the Store, our broad range enables your individual and corporately responsible buying. Whether you are wanting coffee and tea for work or home, a conscience clear gift for a loved one or our extravagantly wrapped hampers or bonbonniere to impress, we are here to pave the way!

All orders over $50 have one special item gift wrapped and can even be delivered the day of your order (within Sydney) Our standard is to send out all orders within two working days so that you can enjoy your socially conscious products as soon as possible..

Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (microfinance), believes that the ending of poverty is simply a question of will. We believe that Fairtrade is one arrow in the quiver that can bring this about. Whether this is realised in part or in full, the exciting reality of Fairtrade is every pack of coffee, every sweat free gift, every piece of jewellery made by a HIV positive lady, is making an impact right here and now.

Beyond these tools of information and buying power we would love to challenge you to a greater depth of understanding and involvement with the poor. If at the end of the day a school has reconsidered where it buys it’s uniforms, a business has changed it’s coffee sourcing or a corporate head demands that they know their overseas manufacture is ‘clean’ we will be satisfied. If you as an individual walk a bit taller because you know there is power in how you shop and think, our job is on the way to being done. Poverty need not see us westerners walking round burdened with shame, but quietly and determinedly motivated to make the change that we can within our varied circles of influence.

Grant and Mignonne Murray

Quick Links: Consignment, Fast Order Form (and posters), Fairtrade Fundraiser, Newsletters, Bonbonniere, Alternative Trader (distributorships), Online Trader

Unit 1, 25  Flinders Street, Lawson 2783 Australia.

Phone: +(61)-(02)-4759-2292 Fax: +(61)-(02)-4759-2282

E-Mail: grant@tribesandnations.com.au or mignonne@tribesandnations.com.au