During fairtrade fortnight, campaigners, businesses, schoolsand places of worship show their support for the farmers and workers who growour food in developing countries.
For hundreds of years, we were taught to serve, to beworkers. Now with Fairtrade, we are entrepreneurs. Marcial Quintero,member of Coobana, a Fairtrade banana co-operative in Panama.
Its a scandalous reality that millions of farmers andworkers are still being ripped off despite working hard to provide the productswe love. Unfairness in global trade is rooted in centuries of exploitation.
Yet across the globe, Marcial and hard-working producerslike him are unravelling this legacy. Theyre fighting for a fair deal,supported by Fairtrade, earning their way out of poverty and transforming theircommunities.
Together were stronger, and more people choosing, sharingand shouting about Fairtrade in the UK means more power to producers likeMarcial to break the stranglehold of poverty prices.
This year, the theme of Fairtrade Fortnight is Come on into Fairtrade and meet your neighbours the farmers who grow and produce thefood we eat each day. For churches, this theme gives the opportunity tocelebrate Gods welcome for all, and helps us consider how as Christians we canbe good neighbours to others.
Find out more at: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/fortnight.
