CHIPPENHAM NEWS: TWO talented young writers from Lacock Primary School have won a poetry competition organised to mark Fairtrade Fortnight.
Stephanie, 10, and Liam, 11, each collected Fairtrade jewellery and a Fairtrade moneybox filled with chocolates after triumphing in the contest run by St Cyriac's Church.
Stephanie won the competition's 10 and under section for her poem highlighting how fairly traded goods offer better protection to the workers that produce them.
Winning the 11 plus category, Liam's poem looked at the chocolate trade, which is often exploited by multi-national companies.
Fairtrade Fortnight, which finished on Friday, saw events organised up and down the country encouraging people to buy products that offer better wages for workers in the developing world.
Headteacher Sue Worningham said: "The children had to write a poem about a Fairtrade product.
"We have been doing some work on Fairtrade in our RE lessons so it tied in nicely."
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