Mark is married to Jo and is a 23 year old youth and schools worker based in South Cave (near Hull). Mark spent 4 years as a youth worker in Peterborough whilst studying for a degree in youth work & ministry with Oasis.
This last week and the week we’re about to enter into are not just any old weeks. if you don’t know we are actually right in the middle of ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’ which is a yearly two weeks aiming to raise awareness of Fairtrade and aimed at encouraging more people to source Fairtrade products as part of their weekly shop.
This year the campaign is titled ‘Swap Your Cuppa’ and it is aiming to encourage people to make a swap in the buying habits they have whether that is to buy Fairtrade tea or switch to Fairtrade bananas!
The website allows people to register their swap (link) and so far almost 3,000 swaps have been registered.
I’m not going to blog anything else on Fairtrade other than to say there’s hundreds of Fairtrade products around now and they’re better than normal products because the farmers get paid properly and the communities benefit!
Buy Fairtrade!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_justice
Fair Trade doesn’t work… Trade Justice is a sustainable solution.