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Various of people shopping 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Voxpop:\"What is an eco Christmas or an ethical Christmas? I don't know. Does that mean that you don't eat turkey? Or that you only buy goods...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television News\u003cbr/\u003eLondon, UK - November 2006\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of people shopping \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Voxpop:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What is an eco Christmas or an ethical Christmas? I don't know. Does that mean that you don't eat turkey? Or that you only buy goods that are good for the world, good for the ecology ? I suppose I do that all the time.\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Voxpop:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well not usually but I am thinking of trying to take part in events that can help others.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Voxpop:\u003cbr/\u003eNo, not really. No, I can't say that I have. As I have got older I have come around to thinking about the - I have moved away from being just a festival where you give presents and have lots to drink and have picked up more on the religious significance of it all.\"   \u003cbr/\u003e5. Exterior Oxfam shop\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of people shopping \u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of fairtrade and ethically sourced products on sale in shop\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various of fairtrade jewellery\u003cbr/\u003e8. Set up of shop manager Sharon Marsden\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Marsden, Oxfam shop manager :\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well they could get all their Christmas decorations for the tree because a lot of people I think like to feel they are hand made and helping people that made them. And they can get their food; Christmas cake, pudding, chocolate and gifts as well, food gifts and their toys. All kinds of gifts really.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of fairtrade and ethically sourced products on sale in shop\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up sign for 'unwrapped' gift scheme \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Marsden, Oxfam shop manager :\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have a scheme which is like a gift voucher and you give it to a friend but what happens is someone in another country gets the gift, basically.  So it would either be a goat or a donkey or a fishing net or something like that  and your friend will get the voucher but he or she will know that the money has been spent on something worthwhile.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Set up Diane O'Brien, Oxfam area manager :\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Diane O'Brien, Oxfam area manager :\u003cbr/\u003e\"You see it is something other than the normal pair of socks that auntie gives you or something like that and I think that people feel that they are up to the brim with (they are fed up with) 'what can I buy, what can I get, what am I going to get?' And I think that people think that that is a much more ethical way if you like of spending their money at Christmas because it is making a difference to somebody.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOxfam VNR - Non AP Television News material\u003cbr/\u003eKalacha, Kenya - Recent \u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of children in school\u003cbr/\u003eSri Lanka - Recent\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of educational talk being given about issues surrounding domestic violence\u003cbr/\u003eVNR - Marks and Spencer - Non AP Television News material\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of fairtrade clothing items in British department store Marks and Spencer\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television News\u003cbr/\u003eLondon, UK - November 2006\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various set ups of Fairtrade spokesperson Barbara Crowther\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Crowther, Fairtrade spokesperson:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We often see images of people living in really poor conditions in developing countries and these are the same countries that are selling us many of the things we take for granted in our daily lives, that are on our breakfast tables, that are the clothes that we wear and we think it is only fair that these people get a fair trade for what they are selling to us.  So we think it is a simple way that ordinary people from day to day can make a difference to the lives of other people around the world.  It is a kind shift away from aid to saying, 'no, let's pay people a fair price for what they produce for us and let them tackle poverty in their own communities for themselves.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e20. Cutaway of Fairtrade sign\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Crowther, Fairtrade spokesperson:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is an absolutely huge array of choices out there now that you can buy that carry the fairtrade mark.  Starting with presents you might give to people for Christmas - we have got clothes, underwear, we have got a fairtrade cookbook here in the UK, we have got sports balls, chocolates. And so there is a huge array of things you can offer as presents; stocking fillers like chocolate. Thinking then about what you put on the table around Christmas; there are dried fruits that you could put into your Christmas cake, there are wines you could put on the table, you could mull wine using fairtrade spices, fairtrade cinnamon, fairtrade sugar, fairtrade oranges.  You could have fruit so bananas and pineapple to have a slightly healthier Christmas.  And also finishing up your Christmas dinner with a nice cup of fairtrade tea or coffee and fairtrade chocolates as well.  Huge array of choices there.\u003cbr/\u003eMarks \u0026amp; Spencer VNR - Non AP Television News material\u003cbr/\u003eDate and Location Unknown\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of fairtrade cotton farmers \u003cbr/\u003eA push is being made in Britain to provide a decent living for workers in developing countries by promoting what are known as fairly traded products.\u003cbr/\u003eThese products help farmers and trades people in developing countries who have grown or manufactured the goods.\u003cbr/\u003ePeople across the globe are heading to the shops, and looking online, for Christmas presents. \u003cbr/\u003eSome shoppers in the United Kingdom say they are trying to make ethical choices in their purchases. \u003cbr/\u003eThe international non-governmental organisation (NGO) Oxfam has a vast array of presents and foodstuffs on sale for Christmas, all of which they classify as 'fair trade' \u003cbr/\u003e'Fair trade' is a way shoppers can buy products that have been sourced in developing countries with the knowledge that the farmers that produced the goods have been given a fair price for them. \u003cbr/\u003eFarmers are then able to invest some of their earnings back into their communities, thus alleviating poverty.\u003cbr/\u003eSharon Marsden is the manager of this Oxfam shop in west London.\u003cbr/\u003eThe shop sells fairtrade products as well as goods including clothes and books that have been donated to the shop.\u003cbr/\u003eMarsden says people could get a lot of ethically sourced and fairly traded goods for Christmas from Oxfam.\u003cbr/\u003eOxfam, as well as a number of other charities, also offer gift vouchers that benefit people in developing countries.These vouchers can also be given as gifts.\u003cbr/\u003eMarsden explains how the 'Unwrapped' gift scheme works.\u003cbr/\u003eDiane O'Brian is Oxfam's area manager.  She says such a scheme makes people feel good about the gifts they are giving.\u003cbr/\u003eThe voucher could help equip a classroom in Kenya or help women in Sri Lanka escape domestic violence.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Britain fair trade goods and organic produce are becoming increasingly popular.\u003cbr/\u003eEven major retail chains such as Marks and Spencer are beginning to stock fair trade products - tea and coffee and cotton t-shirts and baby wear.\u003cbr/\u003e'Fairtrade' is the organisation that assess products in the UK and decides whether or not they are fit to carry the 'fairtrade' mark.\u003cbr/\u003eBarbara Crowther, 'Fairtrade' spokesperson says buying fair trade products is an easy way for people to help those in the developing world.\u003cbr/\u003eCrowther says there are many fair trade products available this Christmas.\u003cbr/\u003eSo people are celebrate Christmas secure in the knowledge that people in the developing world will benefit this season of good 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