SoundAffects Education News
9th June 2010
Reporter Mohammed Allie records new audio for forthcoming SoundAffects Fair Trade Topic
Reporter Mohammed Allie (pictured right) has just finished making audio recordings for SoundAffects with children at Nietbegin Farm near Stellenbosch in South Africa’s Western Cape. Nietbegin Farm, which produces grapes and plums, now operates as a workers co-operative and is an excellent example of the improvements possible for children and families under the Fair Trade initiative.
Unlike in the Apartheid era, when production at many farms developed on the backs of large-scale slave labour and black and mixed-race workers were paid partly with alcohol, now children like Felicia (shown right) and their families can access benefits ranging from free school places and creches, to community halls and skills development programmes.
The SoundAffects Fair Trade Topic will be available to download in July
