Nov. 2, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Tom Neuhaus, faculty advisor
(805) 756-2240
Melissa Schilling, Club President
mschilli@calpoly.edu
Cal Poly Fair Trade Club Selling Holiday
Gift Packs
To Benefit African Children, Farmers
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- The Cal Poly Fair Trade Club is selling gift packs of fair trade coffee, sugar and latte mugs as a holiday fund-raiser throughout November to benefit African farm families.
Cafe Luna, Splash Cafe, El Corral, Campus Market and the SLO Yoga Centre in San Luis Obispo will sell the gift packs. The club will also sell the gift pacts on campus in the University Union Plaza on campus from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Nov. 15, 16, 28 and Dec 1.
Money raised will go to help fair-trade certified farmers in the
Ivory Coast. The African nation produces 75 percent of the cocoa
beans for the American market. The money will buy scales for fair-trade
certified farmers, largely family farmers in rural villages who
belong to cooperatives. Funds will also go to the Kedesh Project
in Galebre, Ivory Coast. It identifies Ivorian children of cocoa
farmers who are at risk of not getting an education and provides
them with education or training.
For details, contact Melissa Schilling, club president, at mschilli@calpoly.edu
or Professor Tom Neuhaus, the club's faculty advisor, at (805) 756-2240.
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