COLIMAN COMMUNITY CENTER FUNDED BY FAIR TRADE PREMIUM
October is Fair Trade Month. Earl’s Organic offers Fair Trade Bananas year-round. Buying Fair Trade products ensures that farm workers enjoy sustainable wages, safe working conditions and improves their community by collectively investing in social and business projects.
$1 per every box of Coliman Bananas purchased goes to the Fair Trade Premium. Every purchase matters!
Last summer the agricultural workers of Grupo AGGALL-Coliman Bananas, and their families, inaugurated the second of three stages of the "Don Jorge Aguilar Heredia" Fair Trade Sociocultural Complex located in the city of Tecomán, Colima with a series of cultural and sports activities. The community center has a total extension of three hectares and its construction is planned to be developed in three phases.
With the conclusion of this second stage, the soccer field 7, the multipurpose field, the auditorium and various common spaces are ready to enjoy. The cafeteria, therapeutic pool, soccer field, administrative offices, picnic area and parking lot will eventually be completed. The last stage will wrap up by the end of 2023, concluding with the construction of a toy library and multipurpose rooms.
Coliman Bananas is a family run, environmentally conscious company, with over 50 years of experience growing bananas in the Colima area of Western Mexico. A little over seven years ago, Coliman Bananas received Fairtrade America certification for the first time and since then, more than 20,000 people have benefited through various educational, sports, cultural and health programs.
