WAKE UP THE WORLD!
13.05.2011 - May is a month of Fairtrade celebrations, especially given that 14 May is World Fair Trade Day! Between April 25 and May 29, tens of thousands of people all around the world are serving Fairtrade breakfast to their friends, families and co-workers. Organisers report breakfasts in 22 countries and in South Africa we are celebrating with our truly local Fairtrade Coffee Week!
In Accra, Ghana, farmer representatives from 13 Fairtrade organisations gathered from across the country on May 4 for a breakfast with their own Fairtrade products: pineapples, bananas, cocoa, shea butter, and cashew nuts. They also enjoyed drinks from their counterparts around the world: Fairtrade coffee from farmers in South and Central America, Fairtrade rooibos tea from South Africa, Fairtrade tea from East Africa and Fairtrade sugar from Malawi.
In Brazil, the organisation SBrasil will launch a Fairtrade certified coffee tomorrow. In Canada, Fairtrade activists passed out juice, coffee, tea, bananas and chocolate to commuters in front of the parliament building in Ottawa.
Participants have registered Fairtrade Breakfasts in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Paraguay, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia and the United States. Breakfasts are held in offices, schools, hotels, youth hostels, restaurants and in public places like parks or town squares.
The Global Fairtrade Breakfast, and, locally, the Fairtrade Coffee Week, aim at helping people understand how everyday habits can have a global impact.
