Staff fair trade breakfast

The University's Fair Trade steering group is offering staff the opportunity to participate in an event that will benefit both your health and your conscience - and help the group earn Fair Trade status for the University.

In the run up to Fair Trade fortnight, which will run over the first two weeks in March, a Fair Trade breakfast will be held in the River Rooms on Thursday 3 March between 8.00am and 9.00am.

Ashley Cummins, from the Fair Trade steering group, explains, "The breakfast will provider a taster of the range and quality of fairly traded foodstuffs that are widely available. There is no charge although though donations are welcome."

With Dundee already recognised as a Fair Trade City, the steering group is working towards earning Fair Trade status for the University. A number of initiatives are already underway, with Fair Trade goods available in the Union Shops, and Fair Trade tea and coffee available in the Tower Restaurant, Bonar Hall and from campus catering for University meetings.

A short film following banana workers in Ecuador will be screened in the University Chaplaincy on Saturday 12 February at 6.30pm. "Bonita Ugly Bananas" looks at the lives of a quarter of a million people who grow bananas and have the lowest pay in the whole of Latin America.

Tickets for the breakfast event are available from Ashley Cummins at the Chaplaincy Centre, or by email on a.cummins@dundee.ac.uk For information about Fair Trade see: www.fairtrade.org.uk