Inishowen prepares
for Fairtrade Fortnight Festival
18.02.22
PEOPLE from all over
Inishowen are invited to attend the Fairtrade
Fortnight’s ‘Choose The World You Want 2022 Festival’ to
spotlight why farmers overseas need to be supported to
fight the ever-increasing threat of climate crisis. This
year Fairtrade Fortnight runs from February 21st through
to March 6th and aims to increase awareness on why
Fairtrade is important and how you can get involved
within your community to make a difference.
Donegal Fairtrade Towns, Carndonagh and Dunfanaghy, as
well as new Fairtrade Town bid Buncrana, will come
together this year for an exciting program of events
designed to engage, inform and educate people around the
urgent message of Fairtrade and climate change, the
future of our food and those who produce it. |
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Join the Fairtrade
Gathering in Colgan Hall, Carndonagh on Friday, 4th
March from 10am to 12 noon. This event includes coffee,
food, tasting demos and stalls. |
Supported by Donegal
ChangeMaker’s, the programme of events will be part of
the international Fairtrade’s ‘Choose the World You
Want’ and will feature coffee mornings, local markets,
baking demonstrations, panel discussions, workshops and
collaborations with Self Help Africa, the Regional
Cultural Centre (RCC) in Letterkenny and Fairtrade
Ireland.
For our young people we are delighted to be
collaborating again with the RCC and a Fairtrade art
competition. Schools around the county can participate,
even if your town is not yet a Fairtrade town. Young
people have led the way in raising awareness of
Fairtrade and our local schools have ran thought
provoking programmes for many years.
Fairtrade Fortnight is an opportunity for individuals,
communities, and businesses around country to stand with
farmers in low-income countries such as Honduras and
Uganda who are affected daily by climate change.
Together, by keeping the pressure on government and
businesses, we can all play a role in ensuring farmers
can benefit from fairer prices, fairer trading practices
and the resources needed for tackling the climate
emergency. |
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St Patrick's Boys'
National School pupils preparing to perform rap at the
Fairtrade Gathering in Colgan Hall, Carndonagh on
March 4th 2022. |
A spokesperson from ChangeMaker’s said: “This year
we are delighted to have the opportunity of coming
together as a county to celebrate Fairtrade both online
and offline. We have an exciting line up of events that
will include Self Help Africa’s photo exhibition at
Letterkenny central Library, an online Fairtrade Baking
Class, our amazing online speaker event that will look
at small businesses in Donegal that give us a Fairtrade
choice and are doing their bit for the environment and
climate change. We also have two local in person events
to be held in Dunfanaghy and Carndonagh. We hope to
bring the Fairtrade message to everyone in the county to
highlight the climate impacts for small holder farmers
in the global south.”
To find out more about these events and how to get
involved in Fairtrade Fortnight, visit
www.changemakers.ie
or contact IDP at 074 93 62218. |
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