We are delighted to announce the young winners of this year’s Scottish Fair Trade Awards. Our winners range from primary schools, a secondary pupil to college and university students.
Small Steps, Big Change
The winner of this award has made an inclusive and affordable recipe book, representing the rich diversity within their school community. The book contains recipes using Fairtrade ingredients and they plan to share their book with families across Glasgow. This makes St. Teresa’s Primary School and the students involved in the project deserving winners of the Small Steps, Big Change Award.
Thank you to North Lanarkshire Council for sponsoring this award.
Fair & Sustainable
The winner of this award has been working with a Ghanaian cocoa farmer to learn about fair & sustainable cocoa farming. Together with the farmer, they have made a short film that will launch on 14 May.
The students at New College Lanarkshire have been connecting the dots between Fair Trade & sustainability for some time. Last year they worked on their Sustainable Christmas Guide, and their campus shop, The Braw Wee Shop, stocks Fair Trade, sustainable and hand-crafted products. And now they’ve moved onto this exciting project learning about Fairtrade cocoa direct from Felix Tetteh, cocoa farmer.
Thank you to Energy Agency for sponsoring this award.
That’s Not Fair
This young winner, age 13, tackled the subject with an essay about Fast Fashion v Fair Fashion, with some research too about Fair Trade fashion.
“In this essay, I am going to argue that we need to stop buying clothes that are made by companies who do not care about their workers or the environment. For me, nothing I wear is worth other people suffering.”
The essay concludes that pre-loved fashion and Fair Trade fashion are two ways of avoiding fast fashion and the companies that pursue massive profits at all costs.
Thank you to WOSDEC for sponsoring this award in memory of Molly McGavigan.
In the Bag
The winners are dedicated to choosing Fair Trade where they can. They’ve found ways of adapting to challenges in order to continue their Fair Trade stall, and they’ve been working with Fairtrade school uniform supplier, Koolskools, since 2015!
St. Joseph’s Primary School in Aberdeen was the first school in the whole area to offer a Fairtrade school uniform choice, and now, 10 years later, they’re still choosing Fairtrade and organic school uniforms plus they are working with Koolskools to support schools in cotton farming communities in India.
Thank you to Scotmid Co-op for sponsoring this award.
Climate for Change
The winner of this award has integrated Fair Trade into their sustainability activities. Fair Trade has a place here alongside climate campaigning.
The University of Aberdeen’s Student Union organised a film screening of ‘The Tea Trail’ to show the truth about the environmental and ethical impact of tea production. This was followed by a talk on related environmental issues, and how choosing Fair Trade aligns with many other aims of the Environment & Ethics group on campus.
Supporting Fair Trade as a way of taking climate action is a conversation that’s been started by our winners of the Climate for Change award.
