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Hot and Spicy – Fairtrade Chillies at Mace Foods
Ian and Shelagh are Shared Interest ambassadors and the views in this post are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society. We arrived yesterday in Eldoret Western Kenya, after a very long but mostly uneventful bus ride, on the heels of a thunderstorm and resulting floods. We discovered today [...]
Visiting Fair Trade Businesses in Kenya
Ian and Shelagh are Shared Interest ambassadors and the views in this post are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society. After a leisurely day yesterday being tourists today, Monday 13th, Has been busy visiting Trinity Jewellery Crafts and Bega Kwa Bega. These are two quite different enterprises. Trinity [...]
Kenya Fairtrade here we come! Ian and Shelagh are packed and ready to go.
Ian and Shelagh are Shared Interest ambassadors and the views in this post are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society. Well, we’re all packed and ready to go. It’s surprising how much you can get in a middling sized rucksack, though we’re both glad we don’t plan on [...]
Our visit to Fairtrade producers in Africa
Ian and Shelagh Baird-Smith are Shared Interest ambassadors and the views expressed herein are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society. We’re getting really excited as our trip to Kenya and Uganda is only two weeks away. For the past two years we have visited Rukungiri in southwest Uganda [...]