Come along to the Riverside Festival in Leicester on Sunday afternoon 2nd June.
It will be a great afternoon … and pop in to see us in the Green Light@ Riverside Festival tent. For more details look at the Leicester City Council website – http://www.leicester.gov.uk/riversidefestival/
WDM East Midlands Day in Leicester
– Saturday 1st June, 11am -to 3pm
Meet other WDM group members, share experiences, and come up with ideas and solutions for effective local campaigning.
Where: Christchurch, 105a Clarendon Park Rd, Leicester, LE2 3AH
The day will include:
• A Carbon Capital workshop on WDM’s new climate and energy justice campaign
• Update on WDM’s other campaigns
• Film screening of Seeds of Freedom
• Skillsharing and action planning
This is a free event. We can also offer travel subsidies. Bring your own lunch – drinks provided.
Please contact Mary Steiner on mary.steiner@btopenworld.com or 0115 922 6702 to let us know you’re coming.
The event is organised by WDM groups in the East Midlands.
Peter and Sheila Yates of Fareshare Leicester and Dan Iles of the World Development Movement highlighted the problems facing poor people in Leicester and Kenya trying to feed themselves and their children in the face of rising food prices and reduced incomes. This meeting was hosted by Christians Aware and the Leicester World Development Movement Group at Christchurch, Clarendon Park Rd, to mark Fairtrade Fortnight.
Fareshare Leicester – preventing hunger and putting a stop to needless waste of food
Pete and Sheila Yates described how their charity is able to reclaim food from supermarkets and other sources, which would otherwise go to landfill. This food is then made available to Leicester organisations who help individuals and families who struggle to feed themselves.
WDM – Food Sovereignty
Dan Iles of the World Development Movement spoke of how four main food companies control most global food production. He also explained how food commodity speculation by banks and other institutions forces up prices for poor families in developing countries and that these families spend 70-90% of their incomes on food.
Dan described the Food Sovereignty Movement which emphasises the need for local control over land and food production. Within the UK, the Food Sovereignty Movement brings together people who care about food and those who produce it. In a world where nearly half of the population are farmers, it is importance to recognise the importance of small scale food production.
Come along to Christchurch, Clarendon Park Road on 26th February between 6pm and 8.45pm.
WDM Leicester and Christians Aware have arranged a speaker meeting to highlight problems of poverty and hunger:
Dan Iles of WDM will talk about food security, the right of people to choose their own food systems. Food sovereignty advocates listening to farmers, peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, women, rural youth and environmental organizations, as well as the market and the dominant global food system.
Sheila and Peter Yates will talk about FareShare Leicester. FareShare is a national UK charity supporting communities to relieve food poverty. In 2011/12, the food redistributed by FareShare contributed towards more than 8.6 million meals.
Please join us.
Visitors to the Christians Aware Advent Fayre at Christchurch on November 28th, signed WDM cards to Malcolm Bruce, Chair of the International Development Select Committee.
Some people who stopped to talk had first hand experience of work in developing countries and endorsed the initiative taken by WDM.
Why not visit our stall at the Christians Aware Advent Fayre on Wednesday 28th November.
The Advent Fayre is at Christchurch, Clarendon Park Rd from 10am – 4pm (near to Queen’s Rd).
Come along to our stall and campaign to tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice.
Coffee and tea will be available from 10.30am and simple lunches from 12 noon.
At the Fayre there will be Christmas cards, new and second hand books, crafts, Traidcraft goods, foods and Christmas gifts.
