"Pushpanjali celebrates World Fair Trade Day 
with Hon’ble WFTO President Mr. Paul Myers"

9th May’09 - a day filled with events

Fair Trade Marathon

• Marathon for the awareness for Fair Trade & Climate Change was organised at Eklavya Sports Stadium of Agra, the run was flagged by Mr. Paul Myers (WFTO-President), Mr. S.C.Mittal (CEO- Pushpanjali), Prof. S.Sharma (Former Prseident – FTF-India), Mr. O.P. Yadav (FTF-India)
  

• 600 + students, volunteers and producers ran 4 kms carrying messages on fair trade and climate change.
  Mr. Paul Myers distributed the t-shirts with world fair trade day logo to the participants
  

• The program concluded with messages from Mr Paul Myers and Mr. S.C.Mittal on climate change and fair trade

Producers Meet at Pushpanjali

Mr. Paul Myers addressed the producers and employees of Pushpanjali about the fair trade; he also interacted with producers and received open feedback from the producers.
A presentation about Pushpanjali and its impact was also delivered. Representatives from Centad also graced the event.

Mr. Paul Myers views:
My visit to Pushpanjali was an inspiration to me on this very special Fair Trade Day. I found a very good caring spirit among you Pushpanjali has kept the business elements and fair trade together. The emphasis on education, self owned housing unit of producers, fair trade awareness among the producers with medical care is an excellent practice at Pushpanjali

250 + scholars brainstormed Climate Change

The seminar on climate change, fair trade and its impact on human life” was organised by Pushpanjali & Fair Trade Forum India in partnership with Centad supported by Hivos and facilitated by R.B.S. Degree College.

The objective of the seminar was to make the students, public, and producers aware and responsible about fair trade, climate change at its impact.

The Key speakers at the seminar were: Mr. Paul Myers , Mr. Linu Philip Mathew & Mr. Kumar Gautam from Centad, Mr.S.C.Mittal from Pushpanjali, Prof. S.Sharma, Dr. SVS Chauhan, Dr. RS Verma, Dr. Ranjit Kumar, Dr. Mridula Singhal, Mr. Bhuvnesh Singhal 

Reaching out to a million through Media

All the events were covered by the media from Agra as well as national new channels and print media.
News Channels - Jain TV, ANS, Sea New, Zee News, Moon News
News Papers - Amar Ujala, Hindustan, DLA, I next, Compact, Akinchitya Bharat

Amar Ujala

Amar Ujala

Akinchitya Bharat

DLA

Hindustan