Take Part in Fairtrade Fortnight

Please take part in Fairtrade fortnight which starts next week 22 Feb to 7 March 2009.

This is run by The Fairtrade Foundation to raise awareness that still 2 billion people still survive on less than $2 a day. Unfair trade rules still leave them in poverty, so please support fairtrade.

Please take a look at their website for more details: www.fairtrade.org.uk

For this year's Fairtrade Fortnight they are asking the nation to join them in The Big Swap. For two whole weeks they are asking you to swap your usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff. Your usual bananas for Fairtrade bananas, your usual cotton socks for Fairtrade cotton socks, and your usual cuppa for a Fairtrade cuppa. Whenever you pop to the shops, you can use your wallet to make a stand.

Please also look at the website as they are carrying out Big Swap events all around the country. One that caught my eye was the Invasion of the Tea Ladies in London on 25 February. People are being asked to go along to parliament square where you will dress up as tea ladies and pose for a photo in Parliament Square before heading off to Trafalgar Square for a good ol' fashioned tea dance.

Please support this great cause