Continuing cooperation between Ghana and Czech Republic

In late August 2007, a group of eight Austrians and two Czechs made a study trip to Ghana to find out how the Fair Trade cooperatives work in this West African country. A half-year later, Mary Mabel Tagoe, representative of the Ghanaian Fair Trade cooperative Kuapa Kokoo, visited Austria and the Czech Republic.

For the Czech NGOs Society for Fair Trade and Ecumenical Academy Prague, it was a great pleasure to invite Mrs. Tagoe to their country. Mrs. Tagoe spent five days in Prague and another one day in Brno. In this time, she made two interviews for the public broadcast, she met with representatives of the national Development Agency, public administration and Czech NGOs, and she spoke in a workshop focused on Fair Trade. Moreover, she spent two hours with children in a grammar school, she visited two world shops in Prague and she had the possibility to get to know the Czech Republic and its inhabitants.

Although the agenda of Mrs. Tagoe during her journey was demanding, she was very nice to all the people she met, always open to conversation and always happy to get acquainted with new topics. For sure, she took home some new experiences, she made new friends in a new country and the Czech partners hope that she would like to come back again to further deepen cooperation and exchange.

For further information on the visit, please contact: Tomas Bily, Society for Fair Trade – Czech Republic, tomas@fairtrade.cz, http://www.fairtrade.cz/

For information on the 2007 study trip to Ghana see TIS (Oct. 2007):
http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.com/2007/10/czech-ngos-visit-fair-trade.html

Information provided by Tomas Bily, Society for Fair Trade – Czech Republic