Warehouse retailer Sam's Club has joined coffee roaster Cafe Bom Dia and TransFair USA to offer weeklong summer 2008 study grants for middle and high school teachers interested in teaching about fair trade.

Teachers are invited to enter a national essay contest and apply to win one of ten expenses-paid trips to visit fair-trade cooperatives, farms, and communities in Brazil next summer. The study grant competition is open to full-time junior high and high school teachers (grades 7-12). Winners are expected to travel to Brazil, July 20-26, 2008, and integrate that trip into fair trade lessons during the 2008-09 school year.

Program details are available at the Sam's Club Web site at www2.samsclub.com/fairtrade. Deadline for applications is December 15, 2007 .