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Amazon fair-trade craft sales assistant at the Common Ground on the Hill Arts and Music Festival

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ORGANIZATION: JCP CACE cc

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Center for Amazon Community Ecology partners in Peru. Photos by Campbell Plowden/CACE

The Center for Amazon Community Ecology is a non-profit organization that helps native artisans from the Peruvian Amazon to develop and market innovative handicrafts to create sustainable livelihoods. As a member of the Fair Trade Federation, we pay our artisan fairly and promptly and dedicate 20% of our net sales to support health, education and forest conservation in our partner communities.

We have a great opportunity to sell a wide range of hand-made Amazon crafts in our Amazon Forest Store roadshow at the Common Ground on the Hill Festival that will be held on Saturday, July 13 at the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St., Westminster, MD 21157. See festival details at: https://www.commongroundonthehill.org/fest_home.html.

We need energetic volunteers to help us at this fun and music filled event on one or more days. We most need people to help set up the booth on Friday (7/12) and Saturday morning as well to pack up the booth on Saturday night. We would also like help from enthusiastic volunteers to be Amazon Ambassadors to help us sell crafts and engage with our Amazon education activities during the festival. We have two extra free passes to the festival that we can share with someone who helps us with most of the set-up and breakdown.

1) Friday, July 12. Set up the tent, display materials and crafts at the CACE booth: 10 am - 4 pm. Need 1-2 volunteers for these critical set-up tasks.

2) Saturday, July 13. Help sell crafts and welcome visitors to the booth. 10 am - 9 pm. Need 1-2 volunteers to help with sales and outreach. Hours flexible.

3) Saturday, July 13. Help pack up the crafts, display materials and tent. 8 pm - 11 pm. Need 1-2 volunteers.

For more information about CACE visit our website at www.AmazonEcology.org. Visit our online store at: www.AmazonForestStore.org.

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Location:

1200 Market St., PMB# 285, Lemoyne, PA 17043, US

Mission Statement

The mission of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology is to promote the understanding, conservation and sustainable development of human and other biological communities in the Amazon region. Our three strategies are research, community support and education. One of our main goals is to study the ecology and develop the sustainable harvest and marketing of non-timber forest products such as fruits, fibers, resins, and oils. We also work with indigenous and other forest peoples to sustain local resources and support their communities.

Description

The main strategies for achieving our goals are research, community support, and education. This will include investigating the ecology and sustainable harvest of non-timber forest products (like resins, fruits and fibers) and assisting indigenous and other forest-based communities to manage and market them to support local development and conservation. This will require reaching out to and connecting many people and communities in the Amazon and abroad. CACE is a member of the Fair Trade Federation.

CAUSE AREAS

Arts & Culture
Environment
Women
Arts & Culture, Environment, Women

WHEN

Fri Jul 12, 2019 - Sat Jul 13, 2019
10:00 AM - 10:00 PM

WHERE

Carroll County Farm Museum500 S. Center St.Westminster, MD 21157

(39.558773,-76.995575)
 

SKILLS

  • Public Relations
  • Merchandising
  • Environmental Education
  • Retail / Sales
  • Customer Service
  • Community Outreach

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 17
  • flexible - minimum 6 hour shift per day
  • passion for the environment and helping people

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