I am Luis Heller, Administration Manager in Allpa, a Peruvian WFTO member. I am also a board member of WFTO and WFTO LA.
Before Allpa, I worked in the corporate world as an Administrator for many years, even do I study social sciences. I decided to change things in my life, move on and work in the Fair-Trade world; I think it was the correct decision.
Working in Allpa for 15 years and working in WFTO and WFTO- LA has made me aware of the struggle that a Fair-Trade organization goes thru to be more modern, efficient and more socially responsible in order to get closer to the producer/artisans, clients and colleagues. Indeed, it is challenging work done with a team effort approach: sharing ideas of innovation, following the principles of our organization WFTO, and the commitment to provide high quality products to our customers from the Fair Trade or conventional market.
I accepted the position in WFTO LA and the WFTO Board to learn more from our movement and bring our ideas to it.
I also work in the International Fair-Trade Towns Campaigns and I am a member of the International Fair-Trade Towns Steering Committee and took the challenge to make our region and the global organization closer to make our objectives as only one. Our regions have different particularities and that is what make us unique; but at the end, we only have one Main Objective: to make Fair Trade and Fair-Trade Towns globally stronger and be inclusive and present the case of small producers and artisans to our global social movement.