The definition of social responsibility is that a business should balance its profit-making activities with those activities of the society in which the business gets the goods/services from. It also involves the development of its business with a positive relationship to the direct society in which the business operates.
  
For us, social responsibility is about sharing privilege in economy and trade.
 
While doing business we form a society and as entrepreneurs we influence the ways in which people live in society, innovate and advance within that society. We realize the importance that employees should love what they do to be more innovative and ultimately be included in the ownership of our business processes.
 
At Caliph Trade we have decided to take responsibility with regards to the social impact of our services along the entire chain of value creation seriously. Our dream is to enable a self-defined quality lives for all individuals who contribute to the products and services we deliver.
 
Creating businesses should no longer be the privilege of only a handful people who have higher living standards – it should now be open to anyone and everyone to close that gap in the standards of living between those who produce and those who sell the very same product.
 
Globally some regions enjoy greater privileges than others when it comes to access to education, good health care and basic needs. These all lead to the profound barriers for people to grow their potential to be innovative and become entrepreneurs. Climate change, political issues, corruption and migration further complicates the lack of privileges that directly take away prosperity.
 
Our first step at Caliph Trade is to define social responsibility as the specific efforts required to tackle education and access to health along the entire chain of our production processes. We sell our products and services in privileged regions whilst many of our products are produced in non-privileged areas. This allows us to generate profit, which we will dedicate to the development of producing employees and their families. Just because it is legal not to offer free healthcare and education, or worker’s insurance and unemployment insurance to workers, doesn’t mean it is right. This form of abuse of workers can no longer be tolerated. The privileges of profits must be shared. It is no longer an option and we invite businesses of all kinds to collaborate with us in this matter.

Since our establishment over ten years ago, this has been our main aim. Our social responsibility is divided in three parts; community and nature, workers related to our company, and suppliers.
We provide training and workshops with farmers of the local communities where our herbs are grown. During these workshops we focus on farming methods where reduction in pesticides, reduction in waste and methods of improved recycling is explained. In our industry we have the benefit that our waste can directly be used back into the soil in the form of compost. One of our products is also mint hay, which is animal feed. We educate them in the best farming practises, advise on the best products to grow and how to use natural elements – sundried herbs – instead of machinery which directly contributes to high usage of energy and pollution.

Running a business that supplies large amounts of fresh and processed herbs and spices requires many workers. These workers include farmers, sorters, packers and their families. Many of our workers are uneducated and so are their family members. With lack of education comes financial struggles and they often live from one day to the next, with no financial prospects. We therefore provide education to our workers, farmers and their children within the communities that they live.

When it comes to our suppliers, our main goal is to promote fair pricing. Second to that is our aim to source products worldwide – creating that central trading point where company owners from all over the world can expose their products and trade worldwide.

In general, Caliph Trade is very proud to uplift the communities of our locals who live on the farms where our products are cultivated. The wives and mothers of our workers are talented in handicraft and we aim to promote their talents to the rest of the world. If you are interested in supporting our communities in Egypt, please get in touch to create partnerships so that these small companies can generate something useful for the community.