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Trade is Bananas!

Trade is Bananas!

Bex Bailey

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This is the 11th most popular campaign

You spend 15p on a banana. The farmer who grew it receives around 2p of that. Is this really fair? Farmers are getting a poor deal and receiving pittance for their hard work. But, by buying fairly traded products, you can put an end to that and change lives! Fair trade could reduce world poverty. You can support farmers by buying products that have been fairly traded. Companies need to give farmers a fair deal. I want to encourage companies to engage in fair trade and encourage people to buy fairly traded products. This way we can support those people who are living in poverty as a result of unfair trade deals. We can help the poorest communities to get health programmes and build schools and roads, just through fair trade. Together, we can pull people out of poverty. All you have to do is BUY FAIR TRADE!

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Hi Bex, Just thought I'd let you know that we're currently looking for our next lot of Battlefronters. If you are still interested, please get in touch via the link on the front page of the website or e-mail me direct. Cheers, Angie

Angie Cox, 11 March 2010 12:20

i like bananas

liam emms, 29 September 2009 12:27

I agree! My school runs a Cafod group which in turn runs a Fairtrade stall. We make over a hundred pounds, going on for 200.. every friday (which is the day we open it up) and obviously some of that has to go on purchasing stock but certainly not all of it, and the rest of it we send back to Cafod so that they can use it to help communities too.

Katie, 07 December 2008 20:27

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Rob Da Bank, 03 October 2008 22:53

great idea. best wishes!

Sunil Glen, 01 October 2008 19:10

Supported :)

Ian Russell, 01 October 2008 18:57