Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Shared Interest Foundation | Building a Fairer World

Shared Interest Foundation was originally founded to compliment the work of our sister organisation @sharedinterest Society. We know that access to finance is a real challenge for the weaker, less-established fair trade organisations. With the support of in-country partners, the Foundation was able to provide vital business and financial skills training to these organisations in order for them to develop and access the finance they required to grow their business.

We remain focused on developing sustainable enterprises, and within this, we have extended our programmes to address sustainability challenges, such as climate resilience and adaptation as well as gender equality and youth employment.

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Our Mission

We exist to deliver projects that are tailored to meet the needs of farmers and artisans in desperate need of support, to address the immediate challenges they are facing. The @unitednations warns that these crises have already reversed progress toward their #sustainabledevelopmentgoals, potentially forcing an additional 75 to 95 million people into extreme poverty.

Against this backdrop, Shared Interest Foundation has worked hand in hand with farmers and craftspeople to strengthen enterprises, increase employment opportunities and empower communities.

Over the past 20 years, the Foundation has delivered 51 projects across 15 countries, directly supported over 13,000 producers, 230 producer organisations and three producer networks.

Because of our interventions, businesses are stronger and have improved the health and well-being of their workers. In addition to providing economic opportunities for households, they generate seasonal and year-round employment, building more sustainable communities.

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Our Projects

The focus of our projects during the early years was providing training in access to finance and helping to build support networks for fair trade organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In Eswatini and Rwanda, we supported the development of two fair trade networks to provide much needed business support to artisans. As Shared Interest Foundation expanded, so did the regions we support, and in 2015 we began working in Latin America, and our first project was working with the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Small Fair Trade Producers to provide training to 25 co-operatives in financial management.

We have we also helped producers respond to natural disasters and get back on their feet when these disasters have struck through our Livelihood Security Fund. More recently, we supported a Ugandan coffee co-operative when they suffered severe flooding.

Through the development of strategic partnerships, successful funding and support from regional colleagues, we have expanded the scope of our projects and last year we delivered a record number of projects across six different countries.

To learn more about our projects, please visit the link below:
https://www.shared-interest.com/gb/support-our-charity/projects

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Support Our Work

If you would like to support our work in Africa and Latin America, you can choose to donate online, donate by post, fundraise or leave a legacy. Thank you.

To support our work, please visit the link below:
https://www.shared-interest.com/gb/support-our-charity/ways-donate

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