During my visit to my home city of Manchester I attended the North West Regional Fair Trade Conference.
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Itinerary for the day
It was lovely to hear Brad Hill - Fair Trade Director at the Cooperative talk about Fair Trade
Brad Hill's Presentation
Brad Hill of the Cooperative Supermarket UK
We then heard from Marion Nduta Nganga of the Coffee Growers Association.
Marion's Nduta Nganga's Presentation
Marion Nduta Nganga Project Manager Women of Coffee Growers Project,
Fairtrade Africa
Followed by a workshop presented by Adam Gardner of the Fairtrade Foundation.
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It was a thoroughly enjoyable intensive day and I was exhausted by its end and had to rest my poor shoulder.
Many thanks to Chrisi, Adam and the Fairtrade Foundation team for organising this event.
Guest comments photos to be added
Brad Hill
Growing Women in Coffee Project Fairtrade Africa
Banana Association Panama
This August I continued to heal from my shoulder procedure (January 2022) and am learning to live with pain in my right shoulder.
My right shoulder was very painful and inflamed and I struggled to write this blog.
I attended a 2 day online webinar titled, 'Journey towards Meaningful Connectivity Exploring Value' with the Institute of Social Entrepreneurs Asia, (ISEA).
Joined the August 2023 webinar about storytelling with World Pulse.
I listened to guest speakers highlighting how to teach literacy to deaf learners from eKitabu, this session was organised by the World Literacy Foundation and Sun Books monthly webinars.
This month I continued to heal from my shoulder procedure (January 2022) and am learning to live with pain in my right shoulder.
I was very poorly and couldn't post about Plastic Free July 2023 everyday but hope to add short videos soon.
I attended a Zoom webinar titled 'The role of faith organisations tackling loneliness' organised by the Civil Society Consulting team.
Attended a Zoom webinar about social entrepreneurs and health organised by WISE women.
This month I continued to heal from my shoulder procedure (January 2022) and am learning to live with pain in my right shoulder.
I participated in the 2 day Loneliness Learning Programme organised by the Civil Society Consulting.
Attended the Fairtrade Foundation UK June 2023 Catch Up Zoom webinar.
Celebrated Eid Al Adha with my siblings.
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