Fair Trade Day

Make Breakfast Count!

"Before you finish eating breakfast  in the morning,

you've depended on more than half of the world"

Martin Lurther King

Maybe this morning you enjoyed ripe bananas from Colombia, fresh coffee from Kenya, cocoa from Corte D'Ivoire or a refreshing tea from India.  In order for you to enjoy these products many people have had to work for hours, some under poor conditions and for very little pay.  Before Fairtrade many farmers worked long hours but actually made so little money that they had to decide which meal they would provide for their families - breakfast or lunch; they could not afford both.  When they did provide, the portions were so small that the family members were never full.

Since Fairtrade started the lives of many have changed for the better.  It’s about supporting the development of thriving farming and worker communities that have more control over their futures and protecting the environment in which they live and work. And it’s your opportunity to connect with the people who grow the produce that we all depend on.  

When you buy products with the FAIRTRADE Mark, you support farmers and workers as they work to improve their lives and their communities. The Mark means that the Fairtrade ingredients in the product have been produced by small-scale farmer organisations or plantations that meet Fairtrade social, economic and environmental standards. The standards include protection of workers’ rights and the environment, payment of the Fairtrade Minimum Price and an additional Fairtrade Premium to invest in business or community projects.

Take a look at some of the work Fairtrade has already done since it started.

Today each class used bananas, kindly donated by the Co-op, as a base to discuss fair trade. 

We talked about how lucky we are that we can always have full tummies and that is only fair that we pay farmers a fair price for their produce so their families can have full tummies too.

We made delicious chocolate baked bananas.

We used the rest of our bananas to have bananas on toast for our afternoon snack - yum!

Thank you everyone for your kind donations.

Have a lovely weekend.