Uphall Fairtrade Steering Group held an Uphall Fairtrade Event – ‘Make it Happen, Choose Fairtrade’ in the Community Centre on Saturday 7th March.

Some of the events on the day were – a children’s corner, treasure hunt, display of winning posters of art competitions in which local primary schools participated, Fairtrade stall, home baking using Fairtrade ingredients, refreshments, snack stall, raffle, ‘Go Bananas’and Fairtrade awareness displays.

After the event, we were able to make a donation of £200 to the Yakanaka Foundation (www.yakanaka.com) which runs projects in Zimbabwe. This money enabled the organisation to buy 600kg of CSB fortified porridge which is fed to the malnurished children and orphans in the area. This will keep the feeding programme going for another 50 days.