Storyteller's World

This was the first time I've been to this annual event, which features stalls run by over 40 voluntary organisations promoting fair trade or campaigning around various issues including peace, the environment, asylum seekers, intermediate technology, vegetarianism. From the worthy to the seriously wacky, though it's more than my skin is worth to say which I think is which.

Here are some links:
Oxford Cycle Workshop
Fair Trade
Intermediate Technology
Pachacuti: Fair trade clothing and crafts from Latin America
Zaytoun: Fair Trade Palestinian olive oil
Oxford Vegetarians
- in no particular order of importance (or worthiness or wackiness.)

It was all great good-natured fun, and lunch at the One World Cafe run by the Oxford Oxfam Group, to the accompaniment of live music from a jazz trio, was an added bonus.

Next year's One World Fair will be on November 19, 2005, in Oxford Town Hall, and will be opened by Jon Snow.