Caol’s Kayla wins Fairtrade event
Pupils show off artistic skills in group’s poster competition
Artistic Caol youngster Kayla Duncan, aged nine, is the winner of Fort William’s Fairtrade Town Campaign’s 2019 poster competition.
The campaign teamed up with The Emporium of Worldly Goods, The Highland Bookshop, Deli Craft and the Co-op in Corpach to raise awareness of this year’s Fairtrade campaign – supporting a living wage for cocoa farmers, particularly women, in West Africa.
The poster competition for school pupils was organised as part of the event with entrants asked to design an A4 poster about this year’s campaign. The entries were displayed in The Highland Bookshop for a week, alongside a Fairtrade Foundation information table.
The winning poster was chosen on Sunday March 10 with Kayla receiving a gift certificate from the bookshop; Fairtrade treats from The Emporium; a bag of coffee beans and Suki tea from Delicraft and a £25 voucher and box of Fairtrade bananas for her school from the Co-op.
Poster competition organisers said: ‘All of the entries were great and it was hard to choose a winner.
‘It was obvious the students put a lot of hard work and thought into their posters.
‘Kayla from Caol submitted the winning poster, which clearly describes this year’s campaign theme ‘She Deserves’.
‘Well done to Kayla and thanks to our judges and sponsors, Councillor Ben Thompson, Deli Craft, The Highland Bookshop, Fort William, The Emporium of Worldly Goods and Sharon Wells at Corpach Co-op.’
Judge Sasha McKinlay, proprietor of The Emporium of Worldy Goods, added: ‘The children clearly have a firm grasp of what Fairtrade means and how their choices locally affect global suppliers.’