Fairtrade Fortnight Challenges – 5
Tracy Mitchell is a Shared Interest ambassador and the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society.
Last count 10 done, 4 to go! So how am I getting on the last few challenges from the Fairtrade Fortnight Member Challenge list?
Well first thing Tuesday morning saw me in Tesco handing in campaign postcards – asking them to carry on stocking Divine. I’ve also publicised this campaign to my church e-group so hopefully Tesco’s will get a few cards – you can join in by downloading the campaign card from Christian Aid.
Then after a couple of meetings in Edinburgh, I headed down to Dumfries yesterday afternoon. I was on the panel at the Fair Trade film/debate evening organised by the local Fairtrade Group. It was a great evening. We watched four good short films: “Fields of Gold” a fairly old film about Fairtrade bananas and the difference they make to families in the Windward Islands, “Matthew’s Story” a Co-operative film narrated by Matthew and giving child’s perspective on Fairtrade, “Changing Lives – the Fairtrade Story” highlighting the link between Fairtrade cocoa from Ghana and consumers in Wales and finally “Recipe for Disaster” a Christian Aid film on Trader Justice. The films and others on Fairtrade, except Matthew’s story, can be seen on the Community channel website.
So two more complete and just two to go! I still haven’t got my camera out for the photo challenge and I need to try a new fairly traded product!
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Comments
Hi Tracy,
excellent work on the challenges. You inspired me to also give an update on my progress. Today I bought some Cashew Butter, similar to peanut butter and made by our friends at Equal Exchange, so fairtrade of course. It was a lovely lunchtime snack and I think the small jar may well become a regular store cupboard presence!
Good luck with the last few challenges.
Sally
Hi Tracy is very interesting from where I come from understand all the activities of an ambassador. You are doing a hard work organizing and getting all this meetings where there are good opportunities to explain what SI is doing for FT and disadvantaged producers on the third world. On my end, I’m facing a hug demand for more financial services from us and the current financial crunch… are adding more pressure to our services… and is an opportunity to expand our mission.
Best regards.
I will keep an eye on your blogs.