Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Developing Trade

A local bank and a tourist resort financed a program to create a sustainable trade for the poorest citizens of a Brazilian resort community. They got the International Trade Center to help educate the people about the value of working in groups and of selling their crafts to a local resort. And a local professor's idea for creating organic waste recycling has already created 40 jobs.

See this link for more details:
http://www.intracen.org/docman/PRSR7951.pdf

This could be an interesting possibility for our community. Who would the trade be with? Local hotels? Local restaurants? Would the ITC come in to a community like ours?

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