Archive for June, 2009
Fair Trade Helps Sustain Palestinian Handicrafts
Lisa Zaslow is a guest blogger and the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society.
Lisa is a passionate fair trade and microfinance activist currently living in North Carolina, USA. She is the founder of Blue People Fair Trade Ltd., an online store that specializes [...]
Soggy ‘Tenners’? Not by having a Shared Interest.
A few weeks ago I took the opportunity for a change of scene from my usual networking opportunities and stepped aboard a refurbished passenger ferry for a lunch date with a difference. Logos Hope is the newest ship to have been commissioned by OM (Operation Mobilisation) and has been moored near Canary Wharf in London [...]
Time for a ‘Big Brew’ and a ‘Big Lunch’?
Save this date –July 19th because you’re invited to a party on your street, and everyone’s street! The Big Lunch are asking people to stop what they’re doing on the 19th July and sit down and have lunch together. If there is a Big Lunch being organised on your street, why not suggest it be [...]
South East Updates from Sally
Hello,
I hope you have been having an enjoyable month. It certainly seems like the events are coming thick and fast as summer approaches. The event in Holland Park last Saturday was threatened with clouds but the sun prevailed bringing families out to see what was going on. The Fairtrade Conference in Wales was a great way [...]
Six Months for Supporter Relations Officer North
By Ruth Taylor
During the month of June I celebrated six months working with the world’s only 100% fair trade lender and continued to explore the variety of events and conferences in the region.
UKSIF (UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association) hosted the summer Ethical Investment Association conference in Edinburgh. While the conference was geared mainly towards [...]
Ambassador Newsletter- Events Update
We are looking for Ambassadors who will be able to help us at the Retirement Show at Olympia in London, where we will have a stall on Fri 17th and Sat 18th July. If you could spare an hour or so to help Sally on the stand please send her an email to let her [...]
Ambassador Newsletter- Producer News
One of our producers in Nicaragua, UCA San Juan de Rio Coco, wrote to us recently to tell us what they had used their fairtrade premium for. UCA San Juan de Rio Coco are a first floor coffee cooperative of 330 farmers, who produce 70% Fairtrade Organic coffee and 30% conventional Fairtrade coffee. With their [...]
Ambassador Newsletter- Foundation News
Andrea is now back from Rwanda and she has the following to tell you about her trip:
The evaluation trip was a great success, it was incredibly exciting for us to mark the end of the first year of this project and to start seeing the results, and results they were! All of the tier one [...]
Zambian honey producers: a long journey but worth it
The following is a Business Development Update by Rachel Ngondo, Regional Development Executive, Africa
Well I am at Kamuzu airport (Lilongwe) on my final lap of my travels this week. I’m really fatigued, but glad I did it.
It was my first time to Zambia and Malawi and it was an exciting for me to experience life in the [...]
Fair Trade -Achievable in a lifetime?
Fair Trade Phil is a guest blogger and the views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society. If you would like to be a guest blogger, please contact us with your interest.
When we sit in the shade of a tall tree, we should be grateful to [...]