Kilmartin Museum to host Christmas fair
Looking for unusual Christmas gifts this year?
Kilmartin Museum is hosting a Christmas-themed market which will showcase an eclectic range of crafts from Fairtrade projects around the world.
Buying Fairtrade products helps to support communities and improve people’s lives, providing dignity and self-respect as well as an income.
The Fairtrade logo means each product has been produced by small-scale organisations or groups that meet social, economic and environmental standards.
The Development Group based in Milngavie (the trading arm of the charity The Balmore Trust) will be offering crafts, clothes, musical instruments, soaps, nativity figures and foodstuffs from Malawi, South Africa, Ghana, India, South America, Palestine, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Profits made by the Balmore Trust are used to support projects concerned with health, education and poverty relief overseas and around the Glasgow area.
Other sellers who will be attending are Feedback Madagascar - a well-respected organisation that aims to alleviate poverty through an integrated approach, recognising the inter-relationship between poverty, environmental degradation and poor health.
Its focus encourages the people of Madagascar to identify their problems and needs, helping them to create their own solutions. It will be selling silk scarves and colourful baskets from Madagascar and an array of other goodies.
Fiona Fraser from Bollywood in Oban will be selling hand-crafted Indian jewellery and fabrics. Each piece is uniquely hand crafted by the masters of their art and made with love and care.
Kilmartin Museum shop will be offering Fairtrade goods from various projects worldwide including Nepal, India and Vietnam. Many of these goods also use recycled materials so they are good for the environment as well as the artisans who make them.
Open on November 18 and 19 from 11am to 4pm at Kilmartin Museum, this is a chance to buy unusual presents knowing that every purchase will make a difference to the producer.