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Saffy handcrafts

SAFFY stands for Social Action for Filipino Youth, the birth name of SAFRUDI. It became the organization’s trade name for its export items upon its incorporation in 1970. From its humble beginnings as a workshop that provides alternative livelihood for the out-of-school youth in marginalized areas of Manila through sewing projects, it now assists some 50 small producers of various novelties from all over the Philippines.

SAFFY aims to enhance the artistic and business skills of Filipino craftsmen. It taps producers to craft collections for exposition in international trade fairs, and has in fact carved for them a regular market in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific.

Aside from acting as a marketing arm, SAFFY runs its own In-house Production specializing in items made with Capiz shells and Coco-fiber.

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2594 Lamayan Street
Sta. Ana, Manila
1009 Philippines

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The Right for Food Seminar

After 60 years of the Human Rights Declaration...

...there is still much to achieve in

The Right for Food

A public seminar on Saturday 6^th December, 5.00pm - 7.30pm

Millennium Chapel Hall, Paceville - free entrance

Followed by refreshments and music:

Pumpkin and Fair Trade rice qassatat made by the Manikata Farmers' Cooperative
Eritrean vegetable samosas
Home-made cakes with Fair Trade Chocolate, Spices and Sugar
Ethnic music from Sudan and Burkina Faso

Programme

5.00 - 5.15	Introduction by the chair, Dr. Adrian Grima

	Part I – The Right for food, a theoretical approach
5.15 – 5.45	Ms. Borbála Simonyi, expert in food sovereignity

	Part II – From global to local The Maltese and the food production crisis
5.45 – 6.05	Mr. Mario Salerno, President of MOAM, Malta Organic Agricultural Movement
6.05 – 6.20	Mr. Mario Cardona, board member, Manikata Farmers' Cooperative
6.20 – 6.50	Dr. Gordon Knox, Inependent Lecturer, Malta

	Part III - Fair Trade and the Right for Food
7.50 – 7.10	Ms. Claudia Piacenza, Enlarging Fair project
7.10 – 7.30	Open floor for questions and discussions

This seminar is being held as part of the project Enlarging Fair, in which Koperattiva Kummerc Ġust is the Maltese partner. The project is led by the Italian Fair Trade Organisation Pangea-Niente Troppo and also includes partners from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.

"The Right for Food" seminar is being partially funded by the EC budget line EuropeAid.

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Palestinian Fair Trade Producers in Malta

Franica Pulis tintervista lil Suzan Sahori mill-Palestina (Illum)

Din il-ġimgħa kien hemm għaddejjin żewġ proġetti li jippromwovu d-diversità. Iżda mara Palestinjana kienet preżenti fit-tnejn - Suzan Sahori - Direttur għar-Relazzjonijiet Internazzjonali ta’ għaqda li tippromwovi kummerċ ġust tax-xogħol artiġġanali Palestinjan: il-Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative Society (www.holyland-handicraft.org).

Illum ltaqgħet ma’ Sahori biex titkixxef dwar il-ħajja vera li jgħixu l-Palestinjani u mhux dik biss li naraw fuq it-televixin. Tibda tirrakkontali kif qed tħossha Malta.

“Inħossni libera. Inħobbu nsuqu minn belt għall-oħra mingħajr man-nies iwaqqfuna biex jiċċekkjawlna l-karta tal-identità jew nistennew fil-kjus twal fil-postijiet ta’ kontroll. Nista’ nippjana l-ġurnata. Mhux bħal f’Ramallah. Biex nasal s’hemm irrid nippjana sagħtejn, tlieta qabel għax ma nafx kemm se jżommuni fil-postijiet ta’ kontroll. Jogħġbuni s-siti tagħkom u l-ġonna. Aħna ma fadlilniex iktar ġonna,” tgħid b’dispjaċir.

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