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Faitrade Certified CottonMeet the Producer

At 10.30am on Saturday 5th March, during Fairtrade Fortnight 2011, a Fairtrade producer is visiting Billericay from Mali to speak in St Mary Magdalen Church in the High Street
This year's Fairtrade Fortnight will focus on cotton and we are expecting Massatoma Mounkoro, an agronomist from the cotton cooperative, MOBIOM in Mali who will make a presentation of approximately 20 minutes
This will be a great opportunity to find out whether buying Fairtrade products makes a difference to people's lives in a developing country from the perspective of a producer.
There will also be Fairtrade refreshments and a Traidcraft stall.
The Fairtrade Foundation are hoping to break the world record for the longest string of hand-designed bunting, currently at 2,696 metres of individual, hand-made, bunting triangles. We’ll have some bunting so if you are interested in painting, drawing or sewing a piece of bunting to express what Fairtrade looks like to you do come along and have a go.