• This film focuses on Shared Interest Society investors as well as the communities that we work with overseas.
• This film shows the impact of Shared Interest Society lending to Fairtrade banana cooperatives in Peru.
• This film shows the impact of Shared Interest Society lending to a Fair Trade handicraft producer in Kenya.
• How Candela a Fairtrade Brazil nuts producer in Peru is helped by UK investors
• Shared Interest helps improve lives of Monda workers from Kibera slum
• Shared Interest Foundation: How Co-ops in Rwanda are benefiting from business training

Investor Film

This Shared Interest film focuses on a selection of investors as well as the communities worked with overseas. The film focusses on three of our members, one volunteer and our Chair. All of those filmed tell their story, sharing how they heard about Shared Interest and why they got involved. To find out how you can invest please click here.

CEPIBO & BOS

This film shows the impact of Shared Interest Society lending to Fairtrade banana cooperatives in Peru.

To find out how you can help please click here.

Salom

This film shows the impact of Shared Interest Society lending to Salom. Salom works with 12 groups of producers located in Kisii district, Eastern and the Coast provinces of Kenya as well as in different slums in Nairobi.

One of the producer groups working with Salom is ‘Amani’ which is the Swahili word for peace. The group is made up of women living in the slums of Nairobi and was formed after the post election violence by bringing together women from different tribes to work together in order to heal tribal animosity.

This group produces a unique range of jewellery. Salom has made a huge impact in the communities they work in by providing a consistent source of income to more than 1500 families. They have also contributed to various projects in the community which include schools, water harvesting.

To find out how you can help please click here.

How Candela a Fairtrade Brazil nuts producer in Peru is helped by UK investors

This Shared Interest film shows how Shared Interest investors have made a difference to the lives of Candela workers and people in the local community. Candela works with nearly 300 Brazil nut gatherers (castañeros) and their families who live along the Madre de Dios river. The nuts are transported by river and road to Candela's processing plant in Puerto Maldonado and then to Lima, from where nuts and oils are exported to Europe, North America and Australia.

To find out how you can help please click here.

Shared Interest helps improve lives of Monda workers from Kibera slum

This Shared Interest film shows how fair trade jewellery business Monda works with people from Kibera and Kitui to produce their glass bead and bone-based products. Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the second largest in Africa, where a million people live in an area the size of New York's Central Park.

To find out how you can help please click here

Shared Interest Foundation: How Co-ops in Rwanda are benefiting from business training

Shared Interest Foundation provides business training to co-operative producer groups in the fair trade sector. Between 2008-2011 we ran a project in Rwanda for 50 Co-ops.

These are some of the stories the Co-op members want to share from that project…

The find out more about Shared Interest Foundation please visit http://www.shared-interest.com/foundation.htm.