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Fair swap for teabags
PRIMARY schoolchildren have swapped 750 normal teabags for Fairtrade ones to help farmers around the world.
Pupils at Fens Primary School, in Mowbray Road, Hartlepool, did their bit to back this year's Fairtrade Fortnight Big Swap campaign, aimed at encouraging people to switch their normal products for Fairtrade goods.
Youngsters at the school were challenged to bring in two normal teabags, which the school swapped for Fairtrade alternatives, and a total of 750 bags were swapped.
Assistant headteacher Neil McAvoy said: "Swapping everyday purchases, like teabags, is a brilliantly simple step to making the world a fairer place."
During the fortnight youngsters at the school did various activities to promote Fairtrade, including making promotional materials, writing and performing a Fairtrade assembly.
They also entered a competition to create a design for a Fairtrade bag.
The school put forward bag designs by Aimee Jackson, eight, Olivia Stanton, 10, and Lydia Newton, 10, into the town-wide competition and Olivia's computer-generated design was highly commended.
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