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42 The Link Magazine • March 2000

JUST THE JOB Easy Iron Women's World Day of Prayer
Domestic Services Agency Friday 3 March, 7.30pm Holy Trinity Church, Shaw
requires Home ironing services Talitha Koum: Young Woman Stand Up (Prepared by Christian
Domestic Cleaners & Ironers Competitive prices Women of Indonesia) Traidcraft goods on sale
For details, call 886394. All welcome: men, women, young people
Flexible hours, Call Andrea on
good rates of pay (01793) 870830
Phone Jill or Sue on 861112 or mobile: 0793 288 3127
World debt. It's not over yet
DECOTEX (Hair 6n Sarah Phillada Ware, Secretary, Swindon Churches for Social Action, writ
Just before Christmas Gordon Brown announced that the Bove:
Mobile hairdressing in ment would cancel 100% of the debts owed to the UK by some oft
Painter & Decorator
the comfort of your world's poorest countries. This was great news and gave add
Specialist Artexing own home at prices pressure to other countries to follow suit.
you can afford In terms of the total, the impact What next? Debt Decision Day
Tel: (01793) 791388 Phone: 01793 882186 of this decision is fairly small. The The UK action puts pressure
amount owed to the UK repre- countries such as Japan, Fran
sents only 2% of the total world Germany and Italy who still ni
Play the ` CREATIVE debt and it had already been agreed to cancel debts. USA and Cam
w Piano CURTAINS that much of this would be remit- have already done this.
ted. However for real impact on
"Learn to Sing tnplete affordable service Gordon Brown has said that the poorest countries, there must
FHand made curtains, debts will be only be lifted if the agreement to reduce the debts t
Phone Swindon 695235 poor countries owe to the big in
for further information Roman & Austrian blinds, resources released are spent on
quilted bed covers, cushions fighting poverty through educa- tutions like the World Bank z
!I IIIIIIIIII!IIIJ Tel: Christine on 875869 tion, health and basic sanitation. the International Monetary Fu:
Who will benefit from the UK's A decision to do this can only
decision? made by the G7 richest counts
Grass cutting Thamesdown These will be the countries in- of which UK is a member. The I
& hedge trimming Upholstery cluded in the World Bank's Heav- date for this will be Debt Decis.
& Flooring ily Indebted Poor Countries Initia- Day, 23 July, when they meet
Household and
Specialists in tive. Forty one nations could Japan.
garden rubbish cleared upholstery, carpets qualify, but they must meet very Christian Aid, CAFOD and
Odd jobs undertaken & vinyls stringent economic conditions laid many other organisations wh
Free estimates
Friendly, 7 day service down by the Bank which could make up the Jubilee 2000 Coaliti
Tel: 728243
Call Chris on 538839 delay the process. are continuing to call on the Brit
The Treasury estimates that government and the other G7 cot
twenty five of the forty one coun- tries to ensure they agree a d
SWINDON BC The person who changed AD tries will start to receive some debt which will finally lift theburder
History is changing
FAMILY CHURCH peoples lives Today cancellation by the end of 2000. debt from the world's poor
Uganda, Bolivia, Mauritania and
countries.
SUNDAYS 10.30AM o^Evange7^c Mozambique should start to re- In Swindon we hope to orgi
O Worslcy Road afj^ ceive debt cancellation now and ise a series of activities which v
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MEETING AT
an additional six should qualify build up pressure before this dz
THE WINNERS LOUNGE by April. To find out more, watch this spa
SWINDON TOWN
FOOTBALL CLUB A fortnight to share the cake fairly
budding with people
AND AT Come and join us Wiltshire Fairtrade Fortnight 4 to 19 March
THE PINEHURST Sunday at 10am & 6.30pm Chocolate cake, honey cake, coffee cake, fruit cake. Everyone Pa, rtr
PEOPLE'S CENTRE For further information of has their favourite. But do the people who grow the coffee, cocoa bea
other meetings ring: 873050 the dried fruit or the sugar get a fair price for their produce? No! r
Al! ages of children & teens cared for
or call at the Church office unless we buy Fairtrade.
Information: call Brian on 849731
Jesus said: "I have come that YOU might The Fairtrade mark guarantees that farmers have been paid a
in association with
NEW FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL have LIFE and have it in its fulness" wage and work in decent conditions. It enables farmers to work w
respect for their local environment and the planet as a whole. Anc
highlight the issues, and to try some of the products, go along to oni
the events listed below:
LOCAL CHURCHES Saturday 4th March Friday 10th March
Fairtrade Stall: Outside Oxfam in Women Out West. 10am. Cot
Regent Street. Tasting and dis- morning, talk by Jo Polack, 4\
All Saints' Lydiard Millicent — 10:30am shire Fairtrade coordinator. Fre
Revd Peter Knight: 772417 (for the Village & Roughmoor) o . plays, a large Fairtrade cup and
saucer and a visit from Julia Drown brook Church.
Holy Trinity Shaw — 10:30am Revd Andrew Hetherington. g MP at 11 am.
770568 (the Church is at Shaw Village Centre) ,z 2' Look out for Fairtrade display
h ^ N Organised by World Development
St Mary's Lydiard Tregoze - 9:00am, 10:30am ^° o Movement and Oxfam. Central Library, Wroughton
Revd Ann Mackenzie: 870244 . g Contact Chris Thackery 695979 brary, possible events at town c
Toothill Church - 10:45am Revd Mark Roper: 692620 ^, § g tre Tesco Metro and Strat
(also Free Church minister for the parish) Pudding Evening: Leisure Cen- Sainsburys and also the Body Sh
tre, Christ Church, Old Town, 8pm.
Westlea Church - 10:00am Revd Peter Knight: 772417 w It's not too late to organise anevi
Yummy puddings, games and the
(this Church meets in Westlea School Hall, Langstone Way) a coffee morning, a Mad Hati
vicar may do a version of Can't tea party or a Fairtrade breakft
The Parish of West Swindon and the Lydiards Cook, Won't Cook.
To book a pudding call Ruth or For details, posters and samp
Baptist • Church of England • Methodist • U nited Reformed Church
Guy Donnegan-Cross on 521296 call Jo Polack on 01380 729218