At Tin Liu the night before
We packed till three
Now At Star Ferry our team of two
And Henry too
On Fair Trade Day
A Fair Trade Break
While I kept talking & talking & talking
Talking & talking & demonstrating
From nine to nine
And still I felt fine
Fine till the next day
Sunday Farmers’ Market Day
My mind was willing
But the body was protesting
My weak heart had this to say:
At home you have to stay
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Photos: Samuel Foo & Terry Leung
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KABLON FARM FOODS, an organic farming & food processing community in Tupi, South Cotabato, Mindanao in the Philippines. The community is made up of 10 families and has a 70-hectare organic farm and a food processing centre. Their products range from pure cacao tablets to fruit juices, fruit preserves, and spices. Newest star products include coconut sugar and a whole range of jams and preserves processed with the low GI sugar.
KABLON products do more good than pleasing our palette and fortifying our health. In 2001, impressed by KABLON products introduced at a peace and development seminar, a commander of the Moro National Liberation Front decided to persuade MNLF members in his hometown to drop their guns and pick up their hoes again to dig and plant and produce items like KABLON to secure a sustainable wholesome future.
For its pioneering efforts and outstanding achievements, KABLON FARM FOODS has received numerous rewards. Recently, it has also been selected by APFTI (Advocate of Philippine Fair Trade Inc.) to participate in an EU programme to assist capable small Fair Trade producers to meet requirements of the European market.
Courtesy of Leonor Ammundsen
KABLON FARMS 椰糖來自菲律賓南部棉蘭老島。生產單位 KABLON FARM FOODS 佔地70公頃，設有食品加工廠。參與生產者共十戶人家。他們從事有機種植及農產品加工。產品包括純可可片、果汁、果醬、乾果、香料等。最新明星產品是椰糖及一系列由這低GI 升糖指數產品製成的果醬。
KABLON食品不只利口兼利腹。2001年，可口精美的KABLON 產品在一個促進和平及地方發展研討會上啟發了棉蘭老島摩洛民族解放陣線的一名地方統領。回鄉後，他馬上發起當地組織的成員放下槍桿，拿起鋤頭， 從事種植及生產，期望能仿效KABLON 締造一個可延續的美好將來。
成績卓越，勇于創新的 KABLON FARM FOODS曾屢獲獎項。最近更被菲律賓公平貿易組織APFTI 選為出色的小型公平貿易單位之一，并獲邀參與一個由歐盟撥款的項目，接受培訓，將生產及營運提升至歐洲市場水平。
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Hong Kong University Fair Trade Week
Hong Kong University
Pokfulam Road
2008.03.10 (11:00 – 16:00)
Open area outside Main Library
WE WILL BE THERE!
2008.03.11 (12:00-14:30)
KK Leung Concourse/ Chong Yuet Ming 302
2008.03.12 (12:00-14:30)
KK Leung Concourse/ Chong Yuet Ming 302
2008.03.13 (12:00-14:30)
KK Leung Concourse/ Chong Yuet Ming 302
2008.03.14 (11:00 – 16:00)
Open area outside Main Library
WE WILL BE THERE!
Sad to see
So much misery on earth
So much more to be done
Glad there are
So many willing hearts
So many out-reaching hands
From Golden Tree Arts:
In northern Calcutta, there is a small but very well known district called Sonagachi, or Golden Tree. It is here that over 6,000 prostitutes work in multi-storied brothels many not through choice but because of poverty.
Golden Tree Arts is a fair-trade, socially responsible organization that empowers the disadvantaged. We will operate in partnership with the Kolkata-based business, Love Calcutta Arts who hires at-risk women and instills in them dignity and self-worth by training them with artisan skills. We enable their economic freedom by bringing their merchandise to the US marketplace. The market for socially responsible products is rapidly growing: the fair trade business in North America grossed an estimated $75 Million in 2004, a 17% increase over 2003. With fair trade certification, you can rest assured that the producers were paid a fair, sustainable wage that promotes opportunity. Golden Tree Arts empowers these disadvantaged women in developing countries to be able to achieve a better life.
2008/01
Holistic Hong Kong January 2008 Issue 76
(Reprinted from Positive News, Hong Kong)
To visit Hong Kong’s most original Fair Traders, you will need to travel to the New Territories. In the mountains of Sai Kung, Fanny-Min Becker, runs Fair-And-Healthy, a home-based business which sells organic and natural goodies such as dried mango, banana chips, virgin coconut oil, sugar and tea. This passionate and devoted Fair Trader was inspired to start her project after she heard the stories of Filipino farmers whom she met while protesting against the WTO.
Star of stars
Shining
Shining far
Now
All the way to Italy
Hurray
Hurrah
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From 12 noon
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