Sat., Nov. 16 will be a Fair Trade market a the Winona Knitting Mills building from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. All profits go to the people who made the goods.

Twenty years ago, John Kennedy, a local insurance agent, when to Honduras to visit his sister Mary, who is a nun in a small village. She introduced him to many of the people who she’s met and helped since she moved down to Honduras. That was the event that started it Kennedy on Fair Trade.

Kennedy returned to the States with a newly burning fire within him; it was this fire that would lead him to start a Fair Trade organisation called Many Hands, Many Lands. This organization brings goods made by Hondurans to the States to be sold with 100% of the profits going back to the people who made it.

Kennedy is a long time friend of sophomore religion teacher Mary Hansen-Parlin who, with her service group Students Promoting Awareness (SPA), helps put on Fair Trade markets at the Winona Knitting Mills building.

These Fair Trade markets have been going on for over three years now and includes goods from Central America, Africa, Laos and goods made by Native Americans.

Many Hands, Many Lands will also have a mini market in the Cotter prayer room on the week of Nov. 18.

With Christmas coming up soon this is the perfect event to buy a gift for anyone you on need to buy for and you can rest happy knowing that you helped people less fortunate than you.