FAIR Trade supporters in Ammanford put their best walking boots to good use last week, just weeks after winning the Most Creative Campaign.
The Carmarthenshire Fair Trade Group was given the award, which recognises the work of local Fair Trade supporters in establishing and walking the 26-mile Carmarthenshire Fair Trade Way, by the Fair Trade Foundation.
The inaugural walk was first launched in June, and last week walkers brave high winds and torrential rain to complete the trek from Ammanford to Swansea.
Local schoolchildren also showed their support for Fair Trade by walking through the rain to give the walkers are a warm send off.
Pupils from Ysgol Gymraeg Rhydaman and Ysgol Bro Banw made Fairtrade banana smoothies for the walkers on a special bicycle powered smoothie maker at the start of the walk in iSmooth Community Cafe in Ammanford.
While children and staff from Ysgol Parcyrhun braved the pouring rain to come out and cheer on the walkers as they passed by their school.
Before making their way through Carmarthen and on to Swansea.
Phil Broadhurst of the Ammanford Fair Trade group and organiser of the walk said the second Fair Trade Way event was a big success.
"The Carmarthenshire walk was a fantastic day of inspiring campaigning, spreading the Fairtrade message as we walked."
The new route from Ammanford to Swansea is part of a growing network of Fair Trade Way walks around the UK which links Fair Trade towns and cities. The initiative, which is aimed at highlighting the work of Fair Trade, is supported by the Co-operative and also by the Welsh Government through Fair Trade Wales.
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