Traidcraft Tour South India, Illustrated Talk, 24th June

For "Meet the People" trip to India, John and Gill met some of the Traidcraft producers as well as other interesting groups of people and doing the usual sightseeing. 

They will be giving an illustrated talk about their experiences on the Traidcraft "Meet the People" tour to the south of India on Sunday 24th June at 5p.m. in All Saints church, Kings Heath. Come and find out about the groups they met and the how the producers have been helped by Traidcraft's support and advice.

Traidcraft tour Southern India

Gill and John Parkin presents Traidcraft 'Meet the People' tour to Southern India, 2012 
(presented at All Saints Social Justice Group, February):

We started off in Kerala, landing in Kozhikode (formerly Calicut) spending some time in the city
visiting Fair Trade Alliance Kerala and visiting farmers in the hills to the north east of the city.
From there we went south by train to Allepuzha and spent one night on the backwaters before
working our way east visiting a tea growing area and the Periyar wildlife park. From there we
crossed the central Ghats into Tamil Nadu to visit a project called “Reaching the Unreached”
(which is a talk in its own right) and the Meenaskshi Temple in Madurai before travelling by
overnight train to Chennai and then by road to Pondicherry. There we visited various projects,
some connected with Traidcraft.



Fair Trade Alliance Kerala (FTAK) is spread throughout Kerala covering 3,000 small farmers
in six districts.