Asking me for fairtrade energetizers I would have told you coffee, fruit bars, even cuban rum … as long as I had’nt come over to GB to discover the incredible dynamics of the fairtrade towns movement … as long as I wouldn’t have discovered the very pretty town Garstang … as long as I wouldn’t have shared those fabulous moments with our revolutionary pioneer Bruce, telling us still most passionately - though campaigning daily over so many years  -  how it all started 10 years ago and has developed since then.

Seeing the wide spread commitment within that tiny society’s cell of 5.000 inhabitants, I definitely confirm what I have been feeling campaigning since 2001 in Saarbrücken: Fairtrade and especially our fairtrade towns movement is about a revolution, a soft one … having more and more and more people joining us without having to get them down to the street or take a gun, … but staying gently at home enjoying their fairtrade cup of tee or their bar of chocolate.

We’ll get back to Germany highly inspired and most thankful!

Kathrin Bremer, german campaign’s coordinator
Silvia Hesse, LA 21 Officer in Hannover
Fleurance Laroppe, Chairwoman “Saarbrücken, First Fairtrade in Germany”