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Who we are
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We are a group of local folk raising money to help people in trouble around the world. Usually, there will be a direct connection with someone in lochwinnoch, There are quite a few local people involved in helping other peoples in need. Normally the money goes straight to an identified project.
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LIA AGM Lochwinnoch International Aid's AGM will be on Saturday morning 23rd January in the meeting room of the Library. It starts at 11.00am and should last about an hour; there'll be a talk by Dr Claire McCormack about her sponsored cycle trip in Vietnam. We gave her some money to support a Wateraid project there. There will be some tea and biscuits for you all. Any more information? call Dave Mellor on 843 099 FAIRTRADE NEWS Plans for 2010 Here in
Lochwinnoch, plans for Fairtrade Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 'The Big Swap' are
underway. We'll be asking Lochwinnoch folk to swap their usual stuff for
Fairtrade stuff; your usual wine, sugar, or oranges for Fairtrade wine, sugar
or oranges. Each swap will be proof that the village wants developing world
producers to get a better deal. We hope to repeat our Fairtrade stall in the village selling a wide
range of goods : a great opportunity to buy some Fairtrade products and help
producers in poorer countries make a living for themselves. Offers of practical
help with the events would be welcome: please ring Bob Turner at 843 068. |
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Upcoming events
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