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Article: Fair trade campaigners set off for Nicaragua.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2005
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SEVEN North Wales travellers will set off tomorrow for a Central American trek.
The group, aged 16-42, will take gifts to youngsters on a fair trade coffee farm in Nicaragua.
``We hope the visit will give everyone a greater understanding of the problems faced by ordinary Nicaraguans, who live in the second-poorest country in the west, '' said Ben Gillham, 16, from Holywell, a pupil at St Richard Gwyn High School in Flint.
``We will be seeing how fair trade is changing peoples' lives for the better, at a time when more and more villages, towns and councils - including Flintshire - in Wales are adopting fair trade. ''
It will be the ...