The first fairtrade season of the new decade kicks off on 23 February for 2 weeks. Fairtrade Fortnight is the annual nationwide campaign to promote awareness of Fairtrade and encourage people to buy products which carry the Fairtrade Mark in order to help farmers in developing countries.
Getting involved in fairtrade in Glasgow is easy. Look out for fairtrade products in your local supermarket, cafes and high street shops. You can also go along to “The Fairtrade Experience” at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall where Hind Hashem El Arabi of the Palestinian Fair Trade Association joins the line-up of producers from India and Chile for the eighth Fairtrade fair in Glasgow. As well as stalls with free tastings and products to buy, there is live music, a VJ fashion show, theatre from Hopscotch, comedy from Tony Vino and children's craft activities from Woodcraft Folk all for the price of £1.
You can even get involved by wearing “Life’s not fair but my knickers are” knickers. Hannah Reed, Campaigns Managers for Fairtrade Towns at the Fairtrade Foundation is encouraging all kinds of swaps: We want everyone to get busy swapping for Fairtrade. Swap your usual bananas for Fairtrade bananas, your usual socks for Fairtrade socks and your usual cuppa for a Fairtrade cuppa. Each swap will help producers in the developing world to get a fairer deal. So, for Fairtrade Fortnight 2010, let’s get swapping.’
You can purchase Fairtrade fashion from http://www.asos.com/, http://www.topshop.com/ and Tesco’s.
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