Haslett resident Gail Catron is the owner of the handmade fair trade shop Kirabo , 225 E. Grand River Ave. After graduating from MSU in 2006, she decided to open a store in East Lansing in 2007.
? Fair trade focuses on bringing products from areas where the people are marginalized and selling them in the U.S. or Europe to get them into a reasonable marketplace.?
“We also monitor for child labor and help teach the importance of letting children be children and not making them earn a living at such a young age,” Catron said.
She said it is important to educate people on resource management
? “The point of sustainability is that our children’s children will still have access to something down the road,” she said.
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