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 Next meeting of the
HoHH Community Group

19th March 2008
3.30 p.m.
at the School.

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Fairtrade Fortnight 2008

A group of students performed a "playlet" on the theme of Fairly Traded Cotton at the Lord Mayor's Fairtrade Civic Reception at the Jubilee Hall on Wednesday 5th March. Stoke-on-Trent is a "Fairtrade City", and the Lord Mayor is the patron of the Stoke-on-Trent Fairtrade Group. This reception is part of Stoke-on-Trent's annual participation in Fairtrade Fortnight.

The group gave a performance highlighting the different attitudes of people from the rich Northern countries towards clothing - designer brands, cheap supermarket clothing, reused clothing and Fairtrade clothing. They discovered that the designer brands and the cheap supermarket brands of t-shirts and jeans were usually made in the same sweatshops in the South (in this case India and Mexico). The message that came across was - if you can afford Fairtrade clothing, buy it; if not, buy used clothing in second-hand shops.

This was a very creative and enjoyable performance - especially the "three-minute flights" accross the globe!

Lord Mayor's Fairtrade Civic Reception at the Jubilee Hall
 Lord Mayor's Reception
Lord Mayor's Fairtrade Civic Reception at the Jubilee Hall
 Lord Mayor's Fairtrade Civic Reception at the Jubilee Hall
Lord Mayor's Fairtrade Civic Reception at the Jubilee Hall
 Lord Mayor's Fairtrade Civic Reception at the Jubilee Hall

Many more pictures can be found on the Stoke Fairtrade website here.

We hope that Haywood will continue and develop its Fairtrade links.

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