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Fairtrade farmer Bassema Barahmeh, from Anza co-operative
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Fairtrade Fortnight
We are looking forward to welcoming Fairtrade farmer Bassema Barahmeh, along with Canaan Fair Trade team member Lamis Zamzam, and of course our director Taysir Arbasi, for Fairtrade Fortnight this year.
Bassema and Lamis will be on a whistlestop tour of South East England, southern Ireland and northern England, sponsored by SUSY and organised by project partners Think Global, Waterford One World Centre and the Co-operative College. Events in the pipeline include a visit to Brighton, Cork, Waterford, Holmfirth, York, Sale and Newcastle.
Taysir will be visiting Hay on Wye, St Albans, Watford, Northampton, Dundee and Oxford.
If you're organising an event to mark the Fortnight, you can download Fairtrade Fortnight resources from the Fairtrade Foundation, and Zaytoun producer profiles and recipes from our website.  
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The team at The Vine Centre, Aldershot, with their donated dates
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Dates Donations
We are grateful to the many customers who emailed us in December to offer homes for our short-dated dates! Together, you made sure delicious Palestinian dates reach asylum seekers in and refugees in Teeside, West Yorkshire, London, Stoke, Lancaster and Dunkirk and food banks in many places including Uttlesford, Glasgow, Bristol, Hampshire.
The vibrancy of the communities who responded to our call for help to distribute these dates was a wonderful reminder of the grassroots support for what we do, and a great way to end the year!
Projects such as Global Link, the Real Food Junk Project, Hands Up Foundation, the Vine Centre, Islington Centre, the Mary Thompson Fund and many others inspire us - the injustice in Palestine is part of a wider global problem ,and we know these local community responses add up to make a real difference to those affected by loss of land, livelihood and family both at home and overseas.
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Joint Advocacy Initiative tour participants planting new saplings in Palestine
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Tree planting in Palestine
Still just about time to book a last-minute getaway! Joint Advocacy Initiative offers the chance to plant new olive trees in Palestine, so if you're fed up with British weather, need to get fit and do something a little bit different, this could be for you!
The program is part of the ongoing 'Keep Hope Alive – Olive Tree Campaign', helping Palestinian farmers and their families plant olive trees in their threatened fields.
Besides olive planting, the program features introductory presentations about the current situation in Palestine and the effects of the Apartheid Wall, tours in the old city of Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, as well as Ramallah, in addition to cultural events and social gatherings.
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Vegetarian maftoul stew, a hearty feast for a chilly January day
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January Recipe
It's pretty chilly out there, so if you're anything like us, you need something warm, filling and tasty to eat! Here's our partner Canaan Fair Trade's recipe for a vegetarian maftoul stew. Maftoul is one of the foods our Fairtrade Fortnight visitor Bassema Barahmeh loves to make, and it's one of our favourite grains, all year round!
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Walk to Jerusalem, part or all of the way, with Amos Trust this year.
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Walk to Jerusalem
Looking for a challenge? Consider walking to Jerusalem! Amos Trust are now taking bookings! Leaving London in June, arriving in Jerusalem in November, you can opt for a stage, or the whole walk.
Leaving Central London on June 10th following events to mark the 50 anniversary of the 6 days war and the occupation of the West Bank, the Walk will pass through London and Kent to Dover before crossing the Channel to France. From there the Walk passes through France, Switzerland, Italy, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, then flying to Jordan and finally into Palestine!
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Israeli authorities uproot olive trees in order to pave a settler bypass road, Izbat Tabib, West Bank, January 16, 2017. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)
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Palestine update
700 olive trees have been uprooted to make way for a new settler-only road near Qalqilya.
Farmers from Ibziq village, near Tubas in the Jordan Valley have suffered the confiscation by the Israeli army of their tractors
The Israeli High Court has just granted a temporary injunction on further construction of an alternative location for the illegal Amona settlement outpost, near to Ramallah. The outpost was subject to a 2014 high court ruling to be evacuated because it was built on private Palestinian land. The new location was adjacent to the existing site, and is also illegal, being Palestinian land.
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Events
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