FAQ

1. What is Thai Song Fair Trade, and what motivated you to start Thai Song?

Thai Song is a social enterprise that produces fashionable earrings and bags, and is dedicated to empowering disadvantaged women living in Bangkok, Thailand by providing dignified employment and holistic training.

It was this core idea, and knowing that each unique eco-trendy purchase can emit freedom into the lives of the women living in Bangkok slums and promote environmental stability that motivated the original co-founders to start Thai Song.

2. What does ‘Thai Song’ mean?

“Thai Song” means “To Emit Freedom.”  The name originated by slightly changing the Thai spelling of the name of the slum that the majority of our women live in.

• [Thai-ไท] – n- Freedom
• [Song-ส่อง] – v- shine ; illuminate ; shed ; emit

3. What does Thai Song’s logo represent?

The merging of a heart and a leaf represents Thai Song’s vision to be a business that promotes the merging together of humanitarian and environmental efforts.

4.  What is “Fair Trade?”

Fair Trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach, focused in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, that seeks to help producers in developing countries obtain fair-living wage salaries, better trading conditions and promote sustainability.  Additionally, fair trade advocates for the implementation of higher standards concerning producers reducing the environmental footprints left during the production process.