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World-wide Fair Trade event on Saturday, May 10^th calls attention to the connection between Fair Trade and the environment.  Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust is an IFAT (The International Fair Trade  Association) member and  will be part of this International Fair Trade movement event.

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Touching diversity! Mediterranean Artisans in a creative dialogue

Artisans from European and Mediterranean countries will be meeting their Maltese counterparts in various local markets to exhibit their crafts while creating new items and sharing their techniques. The artisans will demonstrate how we can experience other cultures through the sense of touch, thus enhancing intercultural dialogue through common ground and an acquired understanding of each other’s tradecraft.

The Involvement of KKG in EYID

KKG has been involved in the project called F.I.V.E. that will take place throughout the European Year of Intercultrual Diaologue, as soon as its proposal for the project was welcomed in Septemebr 2007. It was invited to the two meetings in which all partners involved were present. Since then, it has been in constant communication and dialogue with the project managers, to carry out and prepare the work for its role in the project.

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Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust is awarding a "Fair Trade Users' Certificate" to all those organizations that make use of Fair Trade products during in their offices, place of work or to those who take the initiative to promote Fair Trade.

On the 16th of October the cooperative has awarded a Fair Trade Users' certificate to the following organization for using Fair Trade products or promoting Fair Trade with others. To ensure that organizations make use of Fair Trade products on a regular basis and not solely for promotional purposes the certificate is renewed on an annual basis.

The National Platform of Maltese NGDOs is making an appeal to all organisations/institutions and social groups to perform a one-minute STAND UP as a sign of urgency to eliminate the violations of Human Rights and Extreme Poverty around the World.

All you have to do is literally stand-up as a group for one-minute and then text the number of people standing up and from which organisation/locality/group to 79842015 or by email: standupmalta@gmail.com. You can email a photo as well.

Your sms's of standups will be shown during the 17th October MDG Conference being held in MCC, Valletta.

FAIR: A model of certification of skills and competences for volunteers and professionals in the fair trade sector

Parma, 21st September 2007

Via Borgo Carissimi

PR: Happy Anniversary to Third World Group and il-Ħanut l-Arka

Volunteers celebrate thirty-three years of work with the emarginated and a decade of Fair Trade in Malta.

When: Sunday 27th September 2007
Time: 7:00pm
Place: 60a , Strait Str , Valletta
Entrance: Free

The documentary film entitled " The Spices Road ", is produced by Simona Lippi from Toscana (Italy) with the collaboration of Samuele Malfatti (regia) e Michele Menchini (voice). The film is about culture diversity and immigration.

The event is organized by Simona Lippi (Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust) in collaboration with Moviment Graffitti. Event co-funded through EU Action 3 Youth Programme)