African diaries
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Date:
September, 2002
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The group in Mali. Photo: Christian Aid/Adrian Arbi |
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the moment the rules of trade are stacked against countries like Mali. We want
to see how our campaigning can make a real difference."
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Ever wondered what
it would be like to see for yourself why Christian Aid is campaigning to change
the global trade rules? To talk to the people at the sharp end of the global trading
system and find out firsthand what needs to change?
Kathryn Bracewell, Andrew Bradstock, John McKegney and Garnet Parris have
just returned from Mali in West Africa where they met some of Mali’s poorest
cotton farmers, who are losing out in global trade as the prices they receive
have tumbled to record lows.
‘We wanted to find out why Mali’s
getting such a raw deal in global trade,’ said Mary Bradford, Christian Aid’s
Senior Campaigns Officer, who accompanied the group. ‘We should be giving
extra help to poor countries like Mali, but at the moment the rules of trade are
stacked against them. We want to see how our campaigning can make a real difference.’
Kathryn Bracewell, a Baptist Minister, Andrew Bradstock Secretary for Church
& Society for the United Reformed Church, John McKegney a Church of Ireland
minister and Garnet Parris, a theologian with the Centre for Black Theology at
the University of Birmingham were the four group members and each filed a special
report of the trip for surefish.co.uk.
Click on the names below to read
their Mali diary entry. If you want to read them all, they read sequentially.
• John
McKegney – Church of Ireland minister
• Kathryn
Bracewell – Baptist Minister
• Garnet
Parris – Theologian with the Centre for Black Theology, University of
Birmingham
• Andrew
Bradstock – Secretary for Church & Society for the United Reformed
Church
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