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Fair Trade gets a look in at Peatmoor
Swindon Children at Peatmoor Primary School were exposed in early March to what
College is being done to give food producers in poor countries a better deal.
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Peatmoor School pupils getting behind Fair Trade for food producers
T T about how food growers are kept in er Hanif Robbani talked about farm-
Take a Part-Time ake a Part-Time ake a Part-Time
Bombay Lounge restaurant own-
A school assembly heard talks
course this Spring! poverty by low prices paid for their ing relations in Bangladesh who are
products so that rich consumers in exploited, some earning as little as
the West can have low cost food 50p a day, whilst the cost of buying
whilst generating good profi t for rice has risen dramatically.
Swindon College’s NEW guide is out NOW! the big food companies. Pat Macdonald of Sainsburys
Lynn Forrester of the Swindon displayed Fair Trade products and
For information call FREE on 0800 731 2250 Fair Trade Coalition talked about Greendown pupils set up a Fair
or visit: www.swindon-college.ac.uk the problems faced around the Trade cafe after the assembly.
world and how buying food with Earlier in the week Peatmoor
the Fair Trade logo ensures that children travelled to Greendown
Swindon College, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1DY
producers will be paid a fair price to cook with Fair Trade ingredi-
so that they can feed their own chil- ents provided by the Co-op at
dren and send them to school. Peatmoor.

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