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(babelmed.net) and about Taste the World and fair trade Fair Trade: The Facts
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Saturday, 2 November, 2002 - St. James Cavalier - 10.00am - 7.00pm
Some people are coming for the free delicious coffee. Some are coming for the food, the honey, the jam and biscuits. Others are coming for the live music.
Many
want to know more about fair trade and how it is allowing
thousands of disadvantaged producers in the South of the world to work
their way out of poverty and injustice. All day Saturday, 2 November at St. James Cavalier in Valletta will be the ideal occasion to celebrate fair trade and its unique products and to strengthen Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust, the only Maltese fair trade organization by launching an innovative membership scheme.
The volunteers of Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust, the first social cooperative set up in Malta in 1996, run the world shop L-Arka, the only fair trade shop in Malta.
The main guests of the Taste the World festival are Harini Narayanan from the Gandhi Rural Rehabilitation Centre and Carol Wills, executive director of the International Federation for Alternative Trade.
The Full Programme of the Taste the World festival is now available. However, please note that there will definitely be a number of important additions to the programme in the coming days and weeks. Please return to this site regularly.
"By undertaking [to Malta] this trip I hope to share the immense experience and insight acquired by my organization in the area of Fair Trade. I hope to share good will and deepen my understanding of the concept of fair trade and exchange customs and practices of both India and Malta."
IFAT represents over 160 Fair Trade organisations in 50 countries. It aims to improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged people in developing countries and to change the unfair structures of international trade. It achieves this by linking and promoting the organisations that practice Fair Trade. "I am a true believer in the power of Fair Trade!" says Carol Wills. "The Fair Trade Movement judged in terms of its turnover (compared with conventional trade) remains small, but our ideas are BIG and have had enormous influence. I am convinced that it has been the noise made by Fair Trade Organisations that has caused businesses to review their trading practices and become more socially and environmentally responsible." ON a more personal note, "I am thrilled to be returning to Malta," wrote Carol Wills recently to the local fair trade cooperative that is organizing "TAste the World".
One of the aims of the Taste the World festival is to make more people aware of the fascinating world of fair trade and its ability to change the lives of disadvantaged workers in the poor countries of the world. Fair trade gives people the real possibility of working their way out of poverty.
Being a member of Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust will allow you to invest your money in an initiative that is already bringing many social benefits to people in Third World countries who earn a fair wage for their fairly traded goods.
As
a member you will be joining a growing number of Maltese citizens
who are helping workers in poor and unfavourable conditions make a
respectable living and improve the educational, sanitary and social
structure they live in. Your investment will allow us to meet our next
targets, which include:
In order to attain these targets and maintain the constant educational programmes promoting the benefits of fair trade Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust has invested in the work of its first two part-timers. We believe in fair trade and we believe in what we do. So can you.
Adrian Grima u Karsten Xuereb Taste the World Poster and logos of L-Arka and KKĠ by Adrian Mamo 26.9.02 |
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During
the Taste the World Festival there will also be:
