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For an introduction to Fair Trade Stirling and what we do, check out the video Forth Valley College have made for us! Fairtrade Stirling is a voluntary organisation which works with Stirling Council, local businesses and local people to promote Fairtrade and fairly traded goods. We helped the City of Stirling to attain Fairtrade City status in 2004, and the council area to become a Fairtrade Zone in 2013. We now have sister groups across the Zone in Balfron, Bridge of Allan, Drymen and Strathblane. We maintain a list of where Fairtrade and fairly traded goods are available in Stirling and the surrounding area - take a look to help make your weekly shopping basket that bit fairer. We also host regular fundraising and awareness-raising events in the area - check out the diary to find out what's coming up next. Finally, we're always keen for new members to help in our mission - contact us to get involved or find out when our next meeting is! We Will Walk
8000 Miles!
Fair
Trade Stirling is inviting
everyone to get their
walking boots on - or
running or cycling shoes -
and join together in
starting on a virtual
journey together from
Scotland to Malawi. It’s
all to raise funds for to
help FTS’s fair trade
partners in the Karonga
region of Malawi to set up
youth enterprises,
rebuilding young people’s
lives after all the
disruption of COVID.
This
will be part of Scotland’s
Virtual Kiltwalk in April.
Officially the Kiltwalk is
timed for the weekend of
23-25 April but people can
do their chosen exercise
anytime in April. It can
be done on your own or
with a friend, in line
with current COVID rules.
To take part, register at
the Kiltwalk site www.thekiltwalk.co.uk
and search Fair Trade
Stirling as the cause
you're supporting when
registering. The Tom
Hunter Foundation will add
50% to what is raised. If
you wish, afterwards
you'll be able to take
part in an online chat
with our Malawian friends.
Or, to become a sponsor,
go to https://virtual.thekiltwalk.
We'll
be supporting people like
Abigail Mwangonde, a young
single mother who has been
one of the first women in
Karonga to learn carpentry
skills. She is now able to
make chairs, beds and
tables. With the money
raised, she and young
people like her will be
able to attend a new
learning centre and gain a
trade qualification.
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