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Fair trade fashion in Ackworth

Traidcraft Clothes Show 2001

Fair Trade Ackworth just outside Wakefield have been organising catwalk fashion shows rivalling the Birmingham's NEC Clothes Show for the past few years. This year's event promises to be as big and bright as the rest.

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Fair trade fortnight is the 3rd-16th March

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Ackworth Fair Trade Clothes Show is due to take place on Friday 11th April at 7.45pm. All clothes are fairly traded which means they are usually hand-made by small companies or individuals at home rather than in sweatshops or big factories.

Parading down the catwalk

Many products are from Traidcraft which has helped small comunities for the last 24 years sell their products abroad for fair prices.

This has helped poor communities to work their way out of poverty.

A small amount of money can make a real difference to the lives of those living on just a few pence a day. From having a guarenteed price for their products communities have been able to improve their health care, housing and education and make safer water supplies.

Fair Trade Ackworth

The fashion show is organised by Fair Trade Ackworth, a shop run by Judith and John Wadsworth and supported by Churches Together in Ackworth. Tickets cost 50 pence including refreshments. They can be bought from the shop which is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons from 2-5pm and on Saturday mornings from 10am-12pm.

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