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The Trade plus Aid® charitable trust donates funds to projects designed to alleviate poverty in some of the world's poorest communities.

21st Century Leaders Ltd is a wholly-owned trading subsidiary of the Trade plus Aid® charitable trust.  All net profits from 21st Century Leaders will be donated to Trade plus Aid®.

www.whateverittakes.org is the campaign slogan of 21st Century Leaders.

 

Charlotte di Vita started trading in 1992 in order to establish ethical trading initiatives. These create fair employment and training opportunities in less developed countries. In addition, these trading initiatives have allowed Charlotte to donate surplus profits to fund development in Africa and Asia. Charlotte founded the Trade plus Aid® charitable trust in 1997.

From the outset, all donations to the Trade plus Aid® charitable trust have come primarily  from Charlotte's own international ethical trading initiatives. Trade plus Aid® aims to remain self-sufficient, receiving funds, not from the public, government nor aid programmes, but through the promotion of ethical trade.                

If you would like to support Trade plus Aid's charitable work, please consider purchasing enamels or porcelain figurines from the Charlotte di Vita Collections™, glass products and musical instruments designed and produced by the Trade plus Aid® Design Studio or 21st Century Leaders branded products.

Nelson Mandela inaugurating Charlotte di Vita as Goodwill Ambassador for the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. For further details on the NMCF, visit http://www.mandela-children.org.uk/

 



Charlotte di Vita MBE outside Buckingham Palace after her investiture in October 1998

Charlotte di Vita, founder of Trade plus Aid, receiving her MBE from Her Majesty the Queen in October 1998.  

Charlotte di Vita MBE collecting her Nelson Mandela Goodwill Ambassador Certificate in May 2003.

   

Charlotte di Vita receiving Woman of the Year Award in October 2003

The University of Hudderfield awarded Charlotte di Vita an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration in November 2005

                                                  

 

 

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Trade plus Aid's first development projects were in northern Ghana, funding food security programmes and building schools for impoverished farming communities in the Bawku region.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           
 

 

Trade plus Aid® a charity registered in England and Wales (Registration Number 1061376)