A new Fair Trade Federation has been set up – moving us forward, or yet another confusing layer for consumers and producers to contend with? http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/fairtrade/2012/06/11/beyond-the-label-building-better-fair-trade-businesses/
Well. It was a welcome invasion…. The LYF were delighted recently, to have visitors from the USA. Vanessa Lancaster, a Michigan-based Education Consultant who specialises in curriculum materials and teaching techniques that reach disadvantaged communities and individuals, heard about the LYF’s work in setting up the Not Just A Trading Company programme. Vanessa was particularly [...]
The LYF was pleased to see that 2 years after we held the first Fair Trade Eid Party (attended by over 200 members of the local Muslim community in Lockwood, Huddersfield) in partnership with our friends at the Pakistani Youth Forum, the Fairtrade Foundation has initiated its first ‘Fair Trade and Islam Ramadan’ campaign. In [...]
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