Doing the Splits for Fair Trade Fortnight

The focus for Fairtrade Fortnight this year is the unfair price of bananas. The cost of staples like bread, eggs, sugar and milk has gone up by about 79% in the last 10 years but the average cost of loose bananas has gone down by more than 40% while the cost of production has soared. It is the banana growers and workers that have lost the most and many are being forced into poverty.

We wanted to encourage people to buy Far Trade bananas so pupils were asked to bring a banana to school or buy a banana from us and we made it into a Fair Trade banana split. This was a very delicious though rather sticky activity!

We also sold home baking using Fair Trade ingredients and altogether raised £49.50 for Burma Assist, the charity we are fund raising for this term. Many thanks to Scotmid who supported our event.