As of: March 6, 2024, 6:00 p.m
By: Stephanie Uehlein
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A Weilheim motif adorns coffee and chocolates, which are now also part of the range in the “One World Shop”, where Wera Zarusky presented them.
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On International Women's Day, Friday, March 8th, women will receive "a small chocolate present" in front of the tourist information office in Weilheim's pedestrian zone and can try the new organic and fair trade certified "Weilheimer chocolates", as the city administration announced.
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- The campaign, which lasts from 10 a.m. to around 12 p.m., is carried out by the city's Fairtrade steering team and the “One World” working group of the local “Agenda 21”.
According to the announcement, “interesting facts about cocoa cultivation” can be found at a stand.
Under the motto “Securing human rights with Fairtrade” there is information about the 17 sustainability goals of the United Nations and about the success story of a woman who runs a cocoa processing camp in Togo.
“Fairtrade promotes women’s power and equal opportunities,” says a poster for the campaign on March 8th.
Whole milk and bittersweet
“Weilheimer chocolate” has been available since December in “whole milk” and “dark” varieties.
The cocoa comes from GEPA partners, including from Paraguay, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic (GEPA is an importer of fair trade goods).
The chocolate is made in Germany with organic milk from “Berchtesgadener Land”.
Your label with the Weilheim motif was developed by a city employee.
The printing on grass paper, which according to the announcement is “particularly resource- and climate-friendly”, is carried out in the Diakonie Herzogsägmühle printing shop.
Child labor is avoided
Also new is an organic and fair trade certified “Weilheimer coffee blend” that is available to buy ground or unground.
The coffee, “a mild Arabica blend from Mexico/Nicaragua,” according to the city, is roasted using a long-term process.
“By purchasing fair trade products, people in the producing countries are supported by ensuring humane and fair working conditions, avoiding child labor and paying fair wages,” explains Anneliese Back, spokeswoman for the Fairtrade steering team.
Weilheim has been a “Fairtrade city” since 2018 and was recognized as such for the fourth time by the “Fairtrade Germany” association on January 25th.
You can buy the chocolates and coffee in the “One World Shop” (Admiral-Hipper-Straße) and in the tourist information center in Weilheim.