Weltladen Steyr

Founded in 1980, Weltladen Steyr is a non-profit association based in Steyr, Austria working on international development, environment & climate, refugees & migration +1 more.

Weltladen Steyr is a fair trade shop in Steyr, Austria, run by the non-profit association ARGE Eine Welt, founded in 1980. It sells fair trade food, coffee, chocolate, rice and fashion, sourced from producer cooperatives in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Beyond retail, the association organises educational workshops for schools, cultural events, coffee and food tastings, and an annual World Fair Trade Day campaign. Its work focuses on fairer trade relations between north and south, with a growing emphasis on linking fair trade to climate protection, organic farming and support for refugees, including a rice donation to an asylum shelter in Steyr-Gleink. The association is non-partisan and non-denominational and has about 40 members. It is a Klimabündnis partner business and is run largely by volunteers.