On
Tuesday the 24th
of February years 5/6 took an adventurous visit to the Botanical
gardens of Wales. There were beautiful flowers and plants
from all over the world, such as coffee beans , fair trade bananas
and pineapples all from Columbia. We strolled around looking at some
of the spell-bound attractions. After a wonderful morning of
exploring we were taken to a little hut above a lake, and a teacher
(called Claire) talked to us about fair trade. The fair trade sign
is a man waving his hand. Fair trade is a foundation set up in 1992
for farmers to get a fair price for their goods. Fair trade also
helps people work them self out of poverty. Fair trade also helps
people that work for other people in factory’s and plantations.
Without Fair trade families would find it hard to work themselves out
of poverty, to send their children to school to educate them for a
better chance of survival. We also learnt that the farmers would
probably only get a few pence a day (not even enough to live.)
Claire took us to the rain forest (green house) and showed us lots of
different plants and fruits such as pineapples and a banana tree. As
we strolled through, Miss Woods glasses steamed up as if we were in
the Amazon. Then it was time to go so we met up with Mr Hall and
then unfortunately the bus came and we had to go back home to
Maesycoed.
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