About Us

• WFTO Certified: PROFAIRTRADE Devt Agency Registration Certificate Profairtrade, a Fair Trade Trading Organization and The Preda Foundation, a Social Development Organization. The official name of the trading organization is Profairtrade Development Agency SC Ltd.Co.(*****) based in the Philippines. It is an Fair Trade independent trading organization based on Fair Trade criteria and principles of social and moral responsibility with the main goal of helping small fruit growing farmers, and artisans, craft makers and small independent producers. It especially helps Indigenous people. It provides fair prices and a premium payment to producers to improve working and living conditions. It funds projects to save abused and exploited children and women and campaigns for trade justice, human rights and the protection of the environment. A percentage of sales go to plant as many as 2000 mango saplings a year. It gives support and training to producers and medical insurance benefits to craft makers. Profairtrade spends surplus earnings to promote social justice, combat exploitation, trafficking of persons, child and women abuse and help victims of human rights violations especially minors in prison. It provides safe homes for child victims of sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation where they get healing, legal help, therapy, education and reintegration. The projects for children and victims of human rights violations are implemented through a separate charitable organization know as The Preda Foundation Inc. The People’s Recovery EmpoProfairtraderment and Development Assistance (PREDA) Foundation Inc.(*****) was established in Olongapo City 1974 by Shay Cullen an Irish member of The Missionary Society of St.Columban, based in Navan, Ireland. Today there are 83 professional paid employees implementing the various projects helping the children. The Profairtrade Organization, known as Preda Fair Trade began in 1975 by establishing craft making for young people in conflict with the law who were rescued by Preda social workers from the streets and jails. These children were targets for summary execution by the death squads of the martial law regime of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Many young lives were saved by the Preda project. The assistance to craft makers began in 1975. The project with small farmers began 18 years ago, 1993, Profairtrade (Preda Fair Trade) began a partnership with small mango farmers to buy their mangos and other fruit at fair prices and process them into dried mangos and later into Mango puree or mash for the making of fruit drinks. Many small farmers were being exploited by some traders forming a cartel of price-fixing fruit buyers.