In conversation with Pru McMillan founder of Community Projects WorldWide. Pru takes us through her journey as a social entrepreneur, her passion, the challenges and her ethical business values. Discover why it was so important for Pru to create a business that upholds fair trade principles and how this has shaped her life.
About Community Projects WorldWide
We are a social enterprise (although we do have some charitable products , and we support an organisation in Swaziland that helps child headed households) . It has always been our intention to build a sustainable model that will survive beyond our own humble endeavours.
We take great pride in working with all our suppliers who are all hard working, honest and smart people doing what they can to support themselves and their families, often under difficult social and geographic conditions. We have had relationships with many of our suppliers for close to 20 years and you can read about them on our ‘meet the artisan’ page of this site.
We adhere to all the principles of Fair Trade in conducting our business. All our suppliers are paid their asking price and we supply deposits to facilitate cash flow. We all work together in a mutual relationship of respect, trust Co as a wholesale supplier to retailers throughout Australia, and Community Projects Worldwide caters to our own retail customers. During this time we have expanded our reach to South America, India and South East Asia.
We are a social enterprise (although we do have some charitable products , and we support an organisation in Swaziland that helps child headed households) . It has always been our intention to build a sustainable model that will survive beyond our own humble endeavours.
We take great pride in working with all our suppliers who are all hard working, honest and smart people doing what they can to support themselves and their families, often under difficult social and geographic conditions. We have had relationships with many of our suppliers for close to 20 years and you can read about them on our ‘meet the artisan’ page of this site.
We adhere to all the principles of Fair Trade in conducting our business. All our suppliers are paid their asking price and we supply deposits to facilitate cash flow. We all work together in a mutual relationship of respect, trust and consideration.
Today we still live on the Sunshine Coast have two beautiful children and travel to Africa, South America and South East Asia often to work with our groups.
Read more about the speaker HERE.
The talk will be released on the 30th of November at 7:00pm HERE.