Liz Fox, Director of Corporate Responsibility at Aldi UK, said: “It is essential to support the countries around the world where our products are produced in order to help address equality challenges and create fair and supportive working environments. ‘By buying Fairtrade products from Aldi, such as flowers from Ethiopia, Aldi customers can be confident that their purchase will have a positive and meaningful impact on workers in the supply chain.’ This continued commitment by our partners will ensure that workers are able to advocate for their rights as well as inclusion of women, youth and vulnerable persons. ‘Working with Aldi and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, we intend to promote sustainable livelihoods and decent working conditions for flower farm workers and their communities. Kerrina Thorogood, Director of Partnerships at the Fairtrade Foundation, said: ‘Fairtrade is delighted to be partnering with Aldi UK to further deepen our impact where it is most needed on Ethiopian flower farms. It will focus on promoting sector-wide, as opposed to the farm-level, representation. Phase 2 will reach 13,000 more women, supporting workers to raise their voices through effective trade unions, improving collective bargaining and promoting sustainable livelihoods. I am also training people around me in my community and I believe this will have a significant impact.’ Phase 2 Besides changing myself, it also helped me mentoring others in the flower farm. I have learned to be independent and developed the thinking that women can do anything. Meseret Teshome, a supervisor at Herburg Roses described how the programme made a difference to her: ‘It helped me build my self-confidence, and to gain knowledge on gender equality and empowerment. Meseret Teshome, a supervisor at Herburg Roses Household incomes increased by 36% and more women took up leadership positions. Workers also reported better knowledge of occupational health and safety and health problems caused by working on flower farms. An increased number of people with disabilities were employed on farms through the provision of reasonable adjustments. Gender committee members received training. Impacts included vastly improved grievance mechanisms as well as greater transparency from management in relation to conflict resolution processes. It ran from 2018-2022 and supported 15,000 women across six flower farms in Ethiopia. Increasing women’s financial literacy through savings schemes and better access to finance.Īldi and Fairtrade partnered initially on Phase 1 of the programme.Improving dispute resolution and grievance mechanisms.
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