Trusted brands using certified ethical and sustainable business practices.
Safaya Herbal produces herbal teas from local Ayurvedic ingredients to contribute to a healthy community. They source heenbovitiya, moringa, iramusu, ranawara, thebu, belimal, nil katarolu, lunuwila, and other medicinal plants from their own home garden and from known local farmers. The harvest is carefully cleaned, dried, cut, and packed. Safaya Herbal provides free products for temples and for people in need.
SAFE Sri Lanka works to reduce poverty, empower marginalized communities, and combat human trafficking and unsafe migration practices across Sri Lanka’s North Central Province. They established chili processing centers in Thirappane and Mahavillachchiya to add value to the local harvest, open new market opportunities, and benefit subsistence farming families trapped in cycles of debt and poverty. Their flagship products are green chili hot sauce, green chili tomato sauce, and green chili powder. SAFE pays above-market prices and provides training to help farmers transition to sustainable farming practices. They use a portion of their sales to support trafficking victims and local people affected by unsafe migration practices.
Safra Anver Events specializes in socially and environmentally responsible event management. Their team of experts includes the key organizer behind TEDxColombo and has experience with major conferences, unique brand based events, weddings, media campaigns, sponsor coordination, and more. They can take on all aspects of planning an event or they can serve as a trusted partner and advisor and step in as needed. Safra Anver Events minimizes environmental impact and material waste by using digital technology, in-house equipment, reusable products, and locally sourced supplies.
Sage Sustainable Living is an organic and natural food shop and farm-to-table cafe. They are committed to regenerative farming, responsibly raised animals, homemade natural products, eco-friendly packaging, and zero waste to landfill. While most natural food shops in Hyderabad are aggregators and retailers, Sage Sustainable Living aims to supply as much as they can so that customers can know where and how their food is produced. Their flagship farm, The Baby Elephant Farm, has been following permaculture principles since 2015. They offer private dining events, workshops and experiential learning programs, guided farm visits, overnight stays and consulting services. Their centrally located shop features fresh fruits and vegetables, responsibly raised dairy and meats, homemade cheeses, natural ice creams, freshly baked bread, cakes, and snacks, homemade kombucha, vinegar, and pickles, natural soaps and household products, bulk dry goods, and more. As farmers, they are passionate about extending the shelf life of perishable produce through solar drying, pickling, and fermenting. Sage Sustainable Living composts extensively and operates as a zero waste to landfill store.
Sahabat Laut Lestari implements ecological, social, and economic sustainability in fisheries in Indonesia through traceability software, fishery certification, and the Fisheries Improvement Project (FIP). The fisheries industry currently faces challenges with "fish laundering" or the inclusion of illegally caught fish into the legal supply chain. Sahabat Laut Lestari developed TraceTales as a trusted traceability software that enables seafood processing companies to digitally capture and manage data at all stages. TraceTales automatically records data from the weighing scales and generates a unique QR code with the origin of the fish, certification status, and other required details. This traceability technology enables companies to access sustainability certifications like Fair Trade USA and Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Sahabat Laut Lestari also develops and mentors small-scale fishermen in sustainable fisheries approaches through the FIP and helps them comply with national and international fisheries market regulations and requirements.
Sahaj India was started in 1994 to support the economic empowerment of tribal women in eastern Gujarat. They generate livelihood opportunities that provide alternatives to outward migration, uplift social status, increase education, health and financial security, and enable women to make their own life choices. Sahaj is known for their hand beaded jewelry, accessories, and housewares. The women artisans are stakeholders, not beneficiaries. They participate in decision making, serve as trainers, go to the cities for exhibitions, and have a sense of ownership and responsibility over all stages of production. Sahaj supports design development, skill training, and market access. They also help artisans register with the government, form self help groups, set up bank accounts, and access financial literacy training, insurance schemes, and other services. The Sahaj campus preserves more than 50 species of local and rare trees and guests are invited to plant a tree whenever they visit. Sahaj is registered as a trust and reinvests all profits towards their mission.
Sahaya support grassroots organizations that uplift marginalized people. They buy and market upcycled and recycled paper products from institutions that work with women from disadvantaged areas and people with disabilities. Products include greeting cards, note pads, newspaper bags, gift tags, bags, and wrapping paper.
Saidpur Enterprises creates ethical and environmentally responsible products that support women and their families in their community of Saidpur, Bangladesh. In the 1970s, tens of thousands of Bihari refugees fled to Saidpur following independence from Pakistan. This led to severe unemployment and food shortages in the area. Saidpur Enterprises started in 1977 when the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) trained low income women-headed households to produce jute bags for international markets. A screen printing workshop was established in 1986. Over the years, these two initiatives have employed and supported more than 1,500 artisans in Saidpur. Their current product range includes bags, baskets, and stationery made from locally sourced natural materials like jute and recycled materials like used sarees. Printing is done by hand with non-toxic pigment dyes. Saidpur Enterprises has a democratic structure with an elected Producer Management Committee. Each year, they allocate 5 percent of profits to a worker development fund, 2.5 percent to a skill development fund, and 2.5 percent to a community development fund. The balance is distributed to workers. Saidpur Enterprises is a member of ECOTA Fair Trade Forum and a guaranteed member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO).
Sail Training Ireland supports the development of young people from all backgrounds and all abilities across Ireland by providing sail training opportunities. Their tall ship voyages engage young people between the ages of 14 and 30 as part of a working crew and help them push boundaries, overcome fears, take on new responsibilities, increase self-confidence, and build leadership, teamwork, and communication skills. Sail Training Ireland partners with youth and community groups nationwide to identify young people who would benefit from these opportunities and mobilizes funding for participants from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with disabilities. They use a vessel that includes instruments adapted for visual and hearing impairments, lifts, hoists, and wheelchair accessible bunks, toilets, and gangways. Sail Training Ireland is a member of the Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland. They are a not-for-profit organization and reinvest all surplus towards their mission.
Saintlike Herbs specializes in natural herbal tea from Sri Lanka. They source organically grown flowers, spices, and herbs through ethical trading partnerships with local farmers. Their flagship product is blue butterfly pea flower tisane and powder. Saintlike Herbs is committed to environmentally responsible business practices and contributes to conservation initiatives. Their farmers are verified under a local organic participatory guarantee system (PGS).
SAKA is a community based organization that aims to empower poor and marginalized groups in rural areas of Homa Bay County in western Kenya. The work is done by volunteers from the local community. They provide food, clothing, shelter, and education support for orphans in the area, construct toilets, borewells, and houses for widows and people with disabilities, and coordinate family planning and health services. SAKA also organizes training on financial management, entrepreneurship, tailoring, brickmaking, organic horticulture, agribusiness, and other technical skills to increase household incomes. SAKA is registered as a not-for-profit organization with the Kenyan government and is part of the Green Belt Movement to increase forest cover in Africa.
Sakshi works with a network of designers and artisans in Jaipur to manufacture and export hand block printed textiles and hand painted blue pottery. They specialize in custom designs, on-time orders, and quality craftsmanship. Sakshi directly provides training, professional development, and flexible employment to people from marginalized communities. They also work with nonprofit organizations to develop self-sustaining livelihood opportunities for their beneficiaries by supplying materials and designs and purchasing their finished products at fair trade rates. Sakshi is committed to environmental responsibility. They use local and organic cotton, OEKO-TEX certified dyes, energy efficient lighting, and water saving techniques.
Sakura Sesame started in 2006 with a government training program on rural entrepreneurship and is now an established business that directly and indirectly supports more than 200 people in Ratnapura. They use modern machinery to produce hulled sesame seeds, sesame oil, sesame powder, traditional sesame sweets, and breadfruit and jackfruit snacks. Sakura Sesame is committed to creating employment opportunities for rural women, sourcing from environmentally responsible farmers, and contributing to Sri Lanka's economic development through export quality products. They maintain an employee welfare society and provide scholarships to students in need.
Saladgram aims to help people make better choices by delivering fresh, healthy, and nutritious foods at reasonable prices. Saladgram donates monthly to animal welfare groups and works with Sasnaka Sansada Society to help under-privileged children with their educational expenses. They are in the process of transitioning to fully compostable packaging.
Salad Stories encourages healthy eating habits for children through their hands-on storytelling workshops and their book: Make Me Happy Salads. The book is designed to inspire parents as well as children. All of the visuals in the story book are easy salads made with fresh fruits and vegetables.
Salay Handmade creates fair trade handmade paper and pressed flower products from sustainably sourced natural materials in the Philippines. They started in 1987 as a community initiative called the People’s Economic Council to create livelihood opportunities in their Northern Mindanao community. Salay is now known for its unique paper products made from abaca fiber, salago bark, pineapple leaves, gumamela bark, banana stalks, invasive cogon grass, and other natural fibers. The paper is acid-free, archival quality, and suitable for printing. Salay Handmade uses azo-free dyes for their colored paper range and has developed their own waste water treatment facilities. In 2000, they established the SHAPII Multipurpose Cooperative and SHAPII Foundation to further benefit the community and provide scholarships to local students. Salay Handmade is a guaranteed member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO).
Salruk designs, manufactures, and exports handmade terracotta and earthenware ceramic products for indoor and outdoor use. They were founded in 1987 in Dankotuwa village, a region of Sri Lanka known for its red clay and traditional pottery. Salruk works with a team of skilled artisans to create garden pots, lamps, wall tiles, water dispensers, cookware, tableware, and custom made-to-order designs. Their work can be seen in government buildings and leading resorts and is promoted locally as an alternative to imported plastic goods. Salruk is committed to environmentally responsible practices and contributes at least ten percent of profits to social and environmental initiatives in their local area.
SALT provides business education, mentoring, sales development, and investment services for social enterprises, startups, and small businesses. Their mission is to "build business, people first" and help people from all backgrounds turn their passion into action. SALT reinvests profits towards this social mission. They offer free mentoring and training programs for school kids and teens, recovering alcohol and drug addicts, marginalized communities, and struggling entrepreneurs. They also support educational scholarships and relief work related to health, housing, and natural disasters.
Saltwater People brings together artists, creatives, and storytellers to co-design authentic visual storytelling projects that amplify community voices and lived experiences. Their creative agency specializes in branding, graphic design, websites, digital campaigns, photography, video, animation, illustration, custom artwork, and exhibition design. Their CoLAB collaboration and co-design framework includes tools for idea generation, prototyping, and user testing and helps increase inclusion, power-sharing, and culturally safe and trauma-informed connections. Saltwater People invests in real opportunities for creatives and is working to rebuild a more inclusive creative economy for artists, innovators, disruptors, and changemakers. They are a Social Traders Certified Social Enterprise, a Supply Nation Certified Indigenous Business, and a member of Indigenous Art Code.
Salty Swamis is a cafe and surf shop in southern Sri Lanka that celebrates food, culture, coffee, and surf inspires people to create with one another, and prioritizes lifestyle and sustainability over profits. The shop features products from locally based artists and social enterprises. The cafe offers all-day breakfast, meals, snacks, smoothies, cold-pressed juices, and specialty coffee made from natural, locally sourced ingredients. Vegan and vegetarian options are available, and clean filtered water refills are free. Salty Swamis works to minimize plastic waste and does not sell plastic bottles or use plastic straws. They partner with The Parrotfish Collective on environmental fundraisers, events, training programs, reforestation, and other conservation initiatives.