Broadcast

Well, the documentary was broadcast yesterday on ICR FM. It went out at 10:30am on Voices of Inishowen and again at 8:30pm on the repeat programme. We're very happy with how it turned out and learned a lot from doing it. We got some good press coverage as well - big write-ups in the Derry Journal and Inishowen Independent.

We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped make this happen:

Thanks to Joshua, Betty, Richard, Tukopena, Nelson, Andrew and everyone at NASFAM for making us so welcome and looking after us while we were in Lilongwe; thanks to Khumbo in MASFA and all the lovely farmers who took time out of their day to come and talk to us; thanks to everyone at MASFA for showing us around the warehouses and offices and talking us through the processes, as well as showing us the shelling machines; thanks to his excellency, Liam MacGabhann, for speaking to in the Irish Embassey; thanks also to the farmers for letting us have a go at shelling nuts the proper way! And can we say a big thanks to everyone we met out there from Northern Ireland working on the Habitat for Humanity project. They paid for us to hang out in the airport with them for the 7-hour stopover in Nairobi and we're extremely grateful to them for that!!!

Fairtrade in London

Hey there, sorry for the gap in communications, we've been beavering away on our post-production since we arrived home so it's coming along nicely. Emma went to London recently and met up with Andrew from Twin Trading and Margaret from Liberation to get their side of the story and hear how they've made a supply chain connection between here and countries such as Malawi.

We've got a broadcast date for the documentary - you can hear it first on ICR next Friday the 28th August at 10:30am so we're very excited that you'll finally get to hear the result of all our hard work.

We'll be doing an interview on ICR next Wednesday morning to fill the listeners in on the background to the project. Keep it tuned to 105 or 107.6 fm.