Thame store learns from pupils’ Fair Trade commitment (Status: Contributed)

DUBBLE SUCCESS !! Pupils from John Hampden Primary School in Thame were rewarded by the local branch of the Co-Operative supermarket for their commitment to Fairtrade in an achievement assembly at their school last week.
Year 5 pupils had been working on a project about chocolate ? from bean to bar ? and learnt that the cocoa grown in Mim, a village in Ghana, was used to produce the Fairtrade ?Dubble? chocolate bar. But when it came to tasting it the children were disappointed to discover that the only place they could buy it from locally was at the Oxfam shop.

So, the children wrote to the management of the Thame Co-Op, who sell a large range of Fairtrade goods, to try to persuade them to sell the Dubble bar in their store. They were delighted that their letters were answered very promptly ?.AND with the news that they?d hoped for!

Within days the Co-Op were selling Dubble in their Fairtrade caf