We celebrated One World Wythenshawe yesterday with several hundred people from around Wythenshawe & Manchester with world music, samba, drumming, dance, song, community stalls including our offering from St. Mark's United Reformed Church of free hand massage, olive wood from Palestine and cards from Mozambique. Our next-door stall was Traidcraft with lots of lovely Fairtrade items like chocolate, nuts, dried fruits, biscuits, tea, coffee, rice, sugar and more!This is the second week of Fairtrade Fortnight and The Tree of Life Centre are aiming to serve up some delicious fairtrade meals this week in Woodhouse Park! They have set themselves a challenge and celebration of fairtrade food through the week! What will you do to take up the Fairtrade challenge & switch something in your life to a fairtrade marked item?
One World Wythenshawe was a great big party of diversity and togetherness not only in Wythenshawe but connecting us with other parts of the world where peoples families relate to or have their heritage. It made me think of the small and big ripples our actions can make...a Lenten thought perhaps?
