Gift-giving occasions are wonderful opportunities to show you are thinking about your loved ones. The gifts you choose will be ones they use and think about often, so giving fair trade gifts allows you to not only offer beautiful and unique choices, but socially conscious ones as well. Each gift made by a hardworking man or woman across the world being paid in fair wages gives another human being a chance to better their situation and live a better life. In exchange, your recipient gets a beautiful reminder of both your good taste and charitable motivation.

Is your recipient celebrating a birthday? Whether it's a festive yearly celebration or a milestone birthday, SevenHopesUnited.com has a wide variety of delightful gifts, from brightly colored scarves and hammocks to subtle and breathtaking earrings made from the wings of butterflies. Thoughtful and stylish, these trinkets, bags and baskets carry your well-wishes to your recipient while making a positive difference in someone's life.

The joy of love and marriage is another happy occasion that is wonderfully paired with fair trade gifts. At a bridal shower, the bride will be pleasantly surprised to find an exotically printed apron or sumptuous alpaca throw in her gift bag. Not only functional, these gifts brighten up the new home and remind her of her special day each time they are used. On the day of the wedding, your thoughtful fair trade offering of luxurious turkish towels or beautiful glassware will serve the happy couple well as they move on into their new life together.

Few celebrations are as happy as the arrival of a little bundle of joy. When the mother-to-be opens your gift box, she will be grateful to see items like eco-friendly organic swaddling blankets and whimsical stuffed toys made from fabric scraps. Each item is safe for baby and not only gives the little one something to look at and interact with, but helps to give a the child of an international artisan a better quality of life through the power of fair trade gifts.

With selections that embody the joyful spirit of other important events like an anniversary or housewarming, sevenhopesunited.com is your source for gifts that not only look great, but feel great too. Before you reach for that gift card to a corporate store that doesn't embrace the ideas of fair trade or some mass-produced item that may have used impoverished labor, consider using your dollars to make a difference. Stuck on ideas for what to buy? We offer gift certificates good for any item in our store - a great choice for recipients that are difficult to shop for.