Free Breakfast To Celebrate World Fairtrade Day
Thurles Fairtrade Town Committee is hosting a free Global Fairtrade Breakfast at the Farmers Market on Saturday, 14th May from 9.30-11.30am. The breakfast will be one of thousands of events hosted by the global network of Fairtrade Organisations in seventy three countries to celebrate World Fairtrade Day. Call it breakfast or petit dejeuner or ontbijt, we can all make breakfast fair anywhere around our world by using Fair Trade Certified products.
Here in Thurles, our goal is for folks to appreciate how easy it is to create their own Global Fairtrade Breakfast every day, with easy access to over seventy five Fairtrade products in our local retailers.
To sweeten an already sweet deal, every trader in the Farmers Market will offer vouchers to their customers to sample the breakfast and enter a free draw for a Fairtrade hamper!
A Global Fairtrade Breakfast in Thurles is also an excellent opportunity to raise local awareness of the importance of Fair Trade. On World Fairtrade Day, citizens around the world express their support to Fairtrade as a concrete and efficient response to poverty reduction, economic and global food crisis, as well as climate change. Fairtrade ensures sustainable conditions for production and fair terms, and advocates for a fair economic system and international trading rules.
Thurles Global Fairtrade Breakfast Menu will includes your choice of the following produce:
Beverages.
The classic breakfast juice, Orange, made with 100% Fairtrade oranges sourced from Cuba and Brazil.
Fairtrade Tea, fantastically full bodied and refreshing sourced from Fairtrade-certified tea estates in Africa, India and Sri Lanka.
Fairtrade Coffee, Rich and smooth using Fairtrade and organic Arabica beans.
Fairtrade Hot Chocolate, deliciously smooth and satisfying, organic too.
Fruit
Fairtrade Bananas. taste great, they’re grown with organic fertilizers.
Breads/Scones
Fairtrade Banana Bread, tasty and healthy, using Fairtrade bananas and Fairtrade sugar. A great way to use overripe bananas, and baked by the Farmers Market.
Fairtrade Fruit Scones, everyone’s favourite to accompany a cup of tea, with plenty of butter and a spoonful of Fairtrade marmalade or jam. Baked by the
Cakes
Your choice of Chocolate Chip Cookies, Brownies or Queen Cakes, baked fresh here in Thurles using Fairtrade sugar, chocolate, fruit and nuts.
The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) is the global network of Fair Trade Organizations around the planet. It represents more than 450 Fair Trade Organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, North America and Pacific. WFTO’s mission is to enable producers to improve their livelihoods and communities through Fair Trade. WFTO is the global network and advocate for Fair Trade, ensuring producer voices are heard.
Looking foreward to the breakfast. I can imagine hundreds for breakfast on the 14th May.
Hope everyone turns up for this event. Well done to the Thurles Committee for all their work
Called to the Farmers Market today.Had a “Global Fairtrade Breakfast”.Lots of stuff to choose from, and service was excellent. Large variety of stuff for sale at the market and everyone is very helpful.
Big Thanks to Thurles Fairtrade Group for their huge and continued support for Fairtrade and for joining in the Global Breakfast, sounds like a wondeful event