Reading became a Fairtrade town on 2nd February 2004 and participation
has grown stedely since then.
The New directory shows 20 cafes and 35 shops selling fairtrade
products. In addition over 52 groups, churches, organisations
and businesses regularly use fairtrade tea and coffee at all
their meetings or in their workplaces.
We need to expand this network, as we know from fairtrade
producers such as Rosa Blanca from Nicaragua, that she can only
sell 30% of her fairtrade coffee to the fairtrade outlets because
of insufficient demand. The rest of her coffee get sold on the
"free" market at much lower prices. I would make a huge difference
to her, if all the coffee could be sold on the fairtrade market.
Reading had to fulfil Five Goals to gain Fairtrade Town Status
which are:
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