Fair Trade guests

Raymond Kimaro, Chair of the African Fair trade Network, shows Class 3 where Tanzania is.

Today we welcomed Raymond Kimaro to our school. He came all the way from Tanzania to tell us about how Fairtrade makes a difference to the lives of people in Africa.

At a whole school assembly Raymond and Betsy Reed, Director of the Scottish Fair Trade Forum,

explained how fairtrade works and how we can all help work towards Scotland becoming a fair trade nation.

Raymond told us about the lives of typical coffee farmers who farm on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and how hard life can be for them and how fair trade can help. Fair trade can even help the environment by giving out tree seedlings for people to plant in order to replace the trees they are forced to cut down for fuel.

Class 3 drummed and sang their Kuapa Kokoo song.

Reporters from the local papers asked questions and took photographs.

Many thanks to Betsy and Raymond for visiting our school.