Advent, Advent, fair gifts with GEPA
What warms the heart: feel-good ideas in the run-up to Christmas
Why wait until Christmas Eve? From December 1st to 24th, Fair Trade pioneer GEPA is once again offering a gift for every day this year: two organic Advent calendars filled with chocolate or tea, the real fair Santa Claus with crosier and mitre, organic honey wine, roasted cashews, gingerbread nuts, gingerbread hearts, "fine organic drinking chocolates" with cinnamon or cloves and spicy winter coffee. Placemats, baskets, candles and candle holders adorn the gift table. Wine-red socks with a reindeer motif and warm pyjamas make for a cozy atmosphere in the cold season. Reusable cotton bags embroidered with snow crystal patterns are ideal for plastic-free gift wrapping.
Chocolate Advent calendar: again with a Christmas story
The classic nativity scene motif of the chocolate Advent calendar was designed this year by British artist Justine Kimmer. She likes to paint with acrylic paints and then works on her pictures digitally. On the Advent calendar for 2024, GEPA introduces its partner "Sindyanna of Galilee" from Israel, from which it sources almonds for its "Nougat Cocoa Almonds". Arab and Jewish women have been working well together here for many years, processing and packaging regional agricultural products. The almonds are grown in the village of Iksal, south of Nazareth. According to tradition, Jesus was at home in this region. At the request of many customers, the Christmas story is once again included in the chocolate Advent calendar. For quality reasons, it is inside, under the blister with the chocolate girls and no longer directly on the inside of the doors.
Fair variety in the GEPA tea Advent calendar
A selection of twelve different varieties (herbal tea, spiced tea, fruit tea, black tea, green tea and rooibos) make the tea Advent calendar a warming companion through the pre-Christmas period in December. The teas come, for example, from the socially committed company Tea Promoters India (TPI) or the rooibos cooperative WORC (South Africa).
The "real Santa Claus" with staff and mitre
What would Christmas be without the popular "real organic chocolate Santa Claus", true to the original with mitre and crozier, from Fair Trade? It is available for every occasion and taste: in a practical pack of ten - ideal as a gift for friends, family and colleagues - as a hollow figure in 28 and 65 grams or as a fine confectionery variant: whole milk with white chocolate decoration or in the vegan dark chocolate version.
Where to buy
While stocks last, Fair Trade Christmas products from GEPA are available in world stores, in the GEPA online store at www.gepa-shop.de, in organic markets and in well-stocked grocery stores. Under the motto "Fair and festive world of indulgence", individual grocery stores (e.g. Edeka and Rewe) present Christmas chocolate, gingerbread nuts and fine chocolate products from GEPA in a Christmas display. Christmas cookies, confectionery, Advent calendars and chocolate Santa Clauses from GEPA are also offered in the out-of-home sector (e.g. restaurants, educational institutions).
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