Diocesan News
Fairtrade Fortnight - 27 February - 11 March
Tuesday 14th February 2012
An exciting fortnight of events marking Fair Trade Fortnight on the Isle of Man begins on Monday 27 February with a meal and a movie at St John's Mill. The film 'Black Gold' will be shown as people experience flavours from around the world.
Tickets for this event are £12.50 each and bookings can be made by contacting Jill Gore at St John's on 01624 802900.
The fortnight continues with a whole series of events for which the details can be found here.
A very special visitor has been sponsored by the Fairtrade Foundation to be on the Island during the fortnight.
Massatoma Mounkoro, is a cotton farmer from Mali who will be at many of the events over the fortnight including meeting local farmers and swopping agricultural notes and he will be speaking at a Co-op sponsored lunch for MHKs and the Business Community onThursday 8 March at Tynwald, with tickets available from the Chamber of Commerce on 01624 674941.
Further information on all of these events and Fair Trade generally can be had by contacting Rosemary Clarke at the One World Centre by calling 01624 800464 or by email: info@owciom.org.
For further information on Fairtrade can be found here at the Fairtrade website.