Ammanford Fairtrade Group member Phil Broadhurst recently joined members of Garstang Fairtrade Group as they pioneered a long distance walk from garstang, the first Fairtrade Town in the world, up through the Fairtrade Towns of Lancashire and the Lake District to Keswick.The walkers hope The Fairtrade Way will help to promote Fairtrade products which guarantee third world producers a fair price and good working conditions.
They also hope it will encourage more Ramblers to fill their flasks with Fairtrade tea, coffee or hot chocolate. Phil said " The Ramblers Association has a membership of 135,000. Imagine the impact on Fairtrade sales if just half of those filled their flasks with Fairtrade tea, cofffee or hot chocolate while on their regular walks."
Phil added "Coming from the first Fairtrade town in Wales, it was nice to meet up with the people who got the Fairtrade Towns movement going. We made a lot of good links and are now looking to develop an extension of the Fairtrade Way, brininging it into Wales. Hopefully we'll have the Garstang Group and lots of other Fairtrade Ramblers walking through Ammanford soon."
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