Article: World's 1st 'Fair Trade' rubber gloves from Dipped Products

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The Sunday Observer
Article date:
June 28, 2009
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Colombo, June 28 -- A home-grown sustainable sourcing initiative rooted in empowering smallholder rubber farmers has resulted in Sri Lanka's Dipped Products PLC (DPL) giving the world its first 'Fair Trade' rubber gloves.

'Firstlight,' a multi-faceted program that pays a fair price for rubber latex direct to farmers also offers them technical assistance, provides materials and implements and helps in building the capacities of their communities. This initiative now benefits some five hundred smallholder farmers and their families and accounts for 30 per cent of the total latex needs of the globally-significant hand protection company of the Hayleys Group.

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