Fairtrade go bananas

Well, we were back to where it all began. The Wortley Hall , Sheffield on the 27-28 September, 2006 for the stage 2 of the IDC course we started last year.

One of our colleagues, Chris, from the South Wales has been very active in promoting fairtrade. so at the last GFTU International Development Champions Course stage 2, he made us all pose with the Fairtrade bananas.

Champions 2005 round up

On March 3rd at the lovely Beeches Conference Centre in Birmingham, most of the Development Champions 2005 colleagues gather to review the course and exchange ideas about projects and future plans.

It was also an oppotunity for colleagues who had travelled on GFTU/DFID organised trade missions to Egypt and South Africa to share their experiences.

There was a particular moving report from David Bellairs who had visited Egypt earlier in February and colleagues who visited AIDS orhans in South Africa.

Above one of the resource persons tell of his experiences working with AIDS orhans in SA.

IDCC 2006

The International Development Champions Conference 2006 brings together all the champions from 2005 tommorow in Birmigham, UK.

The one-day programme, organised by the GFTU and supported by the DFID, holds at the Beeches Conference Centre and will afford all the champions from the 2005 courses to meet up and share experiences from their projects and travels.

There would aslo be a presentation and film of the champions' International visit to Egypt and South Africa last year.

Key workshops will be centred around themes such as HIV/AIDS, Fair Trade and Trade Unions in Central/eastern Europe.

Got to go now. would keep you posted after the conference.