Countries Where Zensho Promotes Fair Trade

Trading initiated in 2009. The Mother-and-Child Health Program provides guidance on family planning, health education for childbirth and child-rearing, and educational campaigns on receiving regular health checkups.

Trading initiated in 2011. Activities include constructing a water network, elementary school buildings, a home economics classroom, providing sewing kits for home economics classes, and establishing classroom libraries.

Trading initiated in 2013. Distributed emergency aid supplies, such as food, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Set up medical facilities for patients and distributed medical supplies during a cholera outbreak.

Trading initiated in 2013. Supplied goats to widowed female producers affected by the civil war. Provided solar generator kits and radios to households without electricity.

Trading initiated in 2011. Activities include the construction of a maternity ward, a clinic waiting room, and plumbing installation. An elementary school dormitory for girls and a junior high school were also built.

Trading initiated in 2022. Activities include providing education for children of factory and seasonal workers, and music lessons for pastoral care. A bus was purchased for transporting workers and their children.

India

Trading initiated in 2012. Constructed a computer room for the children of farm workers. Also, installed a small hydraulic generator for the workers’ tenements.

Trading initiated in 2007. Activities include replacing old coffee trees with new ones, installing a water network, and building a coffee warehouse.

Trading initiated in 2015. Launched a scholarship program with no repayment obligation for the children of tea plantation workers, and provided school supplies to the recipients.

Trading initiated in 2009. Installed water storage tanks and built an agricultural training center to support the next generation of coffee growers. Also, provided first aid kits to households lacking access to medical care.

Trading initiated in 2015. Supported the distribution of coffee saplings in response to coffee leaf rust, which had significantly affected productivity. Provided reconstruction assistance for hurricane damage.

Costa Rica

Trading initiated in 2012. Repaired a health clinic that was damaged in the earthquake, and helped to rebuild secondary school buildings. Also, provided support for the distribution of coffee saplings in response to coffee leaf rust.

Trading initiated in 2010. Installed a library, upgraded the ovens to prevent smoke damage, and initiated a home farming project.

Trading initiated in 2011. Constructed elementary school buildings in a mountain village inhabited by farmers, and provided support for the distribution of coffee saplings in response to coffee leaf rust.

Bolivia

Trading initiated in 2019.Supplied essential life necessities, such as food, which were scarce during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Thailand

Trading initiated in 2025. Local production and consumption-based fair trade. Coffee grown by ethnic minorities who have lived in harmony with the forest for generations will be served in stores throughout Thailand.

Trading initiated in 2013. Supplied milking goats, chickens, and household supplies to support female producers, helping them live independently.

Trading initiated in 2009. Activities include refurbishing childcare facilities for workers with children, building a public library, and establishing an elementary school library.

Trading initiated in 2013. Activities include promoting organic farming for the well-being of small-scale tea producers and building a community center.

Trading initiated in 2022. An organic composting facility is under construction to promote sustainable organic farming and safeguard the well-being of farmers.

Ethiopia

Trading began in 2025.

dominican republic

Trading began in 2025.

Panama

Trading began in 2025.

Papua New Guinea

Trading began in 2025.