Fair trade festival on Saturday

This year's edition of Taste The World Fair Trade Festival will be held at St James Cavalier in Valletta on Saturday, between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. Fair trade products, ranging from foodstuffs, handicrafts and clothes to musical instruments and music CDs...

This year's edition of Taste The World Fair Trade Festival will be held at St James Cavalier in Valletta on Saturday, between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Fair trade products, ranging from foodstuffs, handicrafts and clothes to musical instruments and music CDs will be on sale throughout the day from stalls manned by the volunteers that run the fair trade shop L-Arka. The highlights of this year's festival are a seminar on the cotton industry at 10 a.m., a documentary film on the situation of garment workers in Cambodia, a concert at 8 p.m. and African music and dance.

The morning seminar will focus on the cultivation of cotton and the manufacture of textiles and clothes.

The festival is being organised by Malta's fair trade organisation Koperattiva Kummerc Gust.

Entrance to all events is free.

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