Record-breaking day?

Published: 12 May, 2011

• WORLD Fair Trade Day is on Saturday. 

There are millions in the world experiencing hunger and hardship and we can provide opportunity not charity by supporting Fairtrade products. Fairtrade provides a way for the world’s poor to work their way out of poverty by using the Fairtrade premium to benefit their communities by funding schools, clinics and improving cultivation.

Recently Camden celebrated its renewal as a Fairtrade borough by holding a bunting party in the mayor’s parlour as this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight was focusing on the plight of West African cotton farmers. 

People nationwide have been decorating bunting in an attempt to be part of our Guinness World Record attempt to have the longest piece of bunting in the world. We’ll be hanging record-breaking bunting hopefully in Battersea Park on May 14.

JANE WALBY
Chair, Camden Fairtrade Steering Group