A FAIRTRADE harvest festival at a Halesowen school raised more than £200 to help poverty-striken children in Gambia.
Youngsters at Tenterfields Primary were marking Fairtrade Fortnight and raising money for a Gambian school which they support.
The link was set up by former headteacher Shelagh O’Loughlin, who took early retirement last April and is being developed with the backing of her successor Keith Butler.
Teacher Jayne Hardy accompanied Ms O’Loughlin and other Dudley teachers to Gambia last April and gave the school mosquito nets, fabric for school uniforms and funded a gardening project all from money raised at Tenterfields.
The £220 collected from the sale of the donated harvest festival items to parents will go towards more equipment for the Gambian school.
Pupils also played a series of games during Fairtrade Fortnight which highlighted the unfair way many farmers are treated in developing countries and how Fairtrade provides them with a decent income to help them and their communities climb out of poverty.
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