Archive for November 6th, 2009
On Friday the 20th of November there will be the opportunity to see and buy Traidcraft products in Gairloch High School, multi-purpose hall from 7.00pm to 9.00pm.
All proceeds will go towards the Traidcraft charity. £2 entry for adults, pay at the door – Tea/coffee included. Children/pupils go free!
Informal musical entertainment from pupils.
A great opportunity to look at some different ideas for Christmas presents this year…
Two small groups of S3 and S5/S6 pupils have been involved in the preparation for this event.
Read below what they have worked on so far…
Traidcraft, by Gary & Kim:
Traidcraft was set up as a faith organisation in August 1979. Traidcraft helps people in poor countries like Africa. We are buying Traidcraft food to help raise money for poor people. Traidcraft has lots of foods such as, coffee, different kinds of tea, and healthy snack bars called Geobars. Traidcraft food is expensive but there’s a reason for that, because the people in the poor countries help make the food for us, but don’t always get the right amount of money for it, so we are helping them get the right amount of money. We bought, double chocolate cookies, chocolate selections, instant chocolate drink, fairbrake wafers, divine milk chocolate, chocolate and mixed barriers Geobars, chocolate peanuts and milk chocolate beanies. Kim’s favourite food is the double chocolate cookies and Gary’s favourite food was the chocolate selection.
Sometimes people ask why Fair Trade products are so expensive? Here is some information from Wikipedia on Fair Trade by Max Mckerron:
Fair Trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to producers as well as social and environmental standards.
Fair Trade’s strategic intent is to work with marginalized producers and workers in order to help them move towards economic self-sufficiency and stability. It also aims to allow them to become greater stakeholders in their own organisations, as well as play a wider role in international trade.
In 2008, Fair Trade certified sales amounted to approximately US $4.08 billion (€2.9 billion) worldwide, a 22% year-to-year increase.While this represents a tiny fraction of world trade in physical merchandise, fair trade products generally account for 1-20% of all sales in their product categories in Europe and North America. In June 2008, it was estimated that over 7.5 million producers and their families were benefiting from fair trade funded infrastructure, technical assistance and community development projects.
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