|
|
|
FAIRTRADE at
Wirral Grammar School
for Boys
Wirral Grammar School
for Boys
"Fairtrade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers and workers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalised by the conventional trading system. If fair access to markets under better trade conditions would help them to overcome barriers to development, they can join Fairtrade."
Fairtrade is a tool for development that ensures disadvantaged farmers and workers in developing countries get a better deal through the use of the international FAIRTRADE mark.
Fairtrade labelling was created in the Netherlands in the late 1980's. The Max Havelaar Foundation launched the first Fairtrade consumer guarantee label in 1988 on coffee sourced from Mexico. Here in the UK, the Fairtrade Foundation was established in 1992, with the first products to carry the FAIRTRADE mark launched in 1994.
Here at our school we will be talking about Fairtrade during assemblies and we will also be selling Fairtrade produce throughout the school during break times
Richard Crompton
Wirral Grammar School for Boys
Fairtrade is a tool for development that ensures disadvantaged farmers and workers in developing countries get a better deal through the use of the international FAIRTRADE mark.
Fairtrade labelling was created in the Netherlands in the late 1980's. The Max Havelaar Foundation launched the first Fairtrade consumer guarantee label in 1988 on coffee sourced from Mexico. Here in the UK, the Fairtrade Foundation was established in 1992, with the first products to carry the FAIRTRADE mark launched in 1994.
Here at our school we will be talking about Fairtrade during assemblies and we will also be selling Fairtrade produce throughout the school during break times
Richard Crompton
Wirral Grammar School for Boys
