The time is almost here: Fair Week 2022 is starting, and the Fairtrade town of Homburg, together with the Fairtrade Saarpfalz district, is once again participating with a fair city rally. As announced last year, the city rally has been expanded and is now being offered as a digital Actionbound, launching on Saturday, September 10th, during the action day "Fairtrade meets Sustainability - regional-global-fair: 17 Goals for the World." The setting is the historic Homburg marketplace as part of the Music Summer. This is a virtual scavenger hunt accessible via QR code from September 10th on the Biosphere Bliesgau website at https://biosphaere-bliesgau.eu as well as at https:/actionbound.com/HOM2022. "Exciting stations throughout our city, where important information about fair trade, the Fairtrade town of Homburg, and the Fairtrade Saarpfalz district, as well as regional products, will be shared, await participants," informs Christine Becker, Deputy and Fairtrade Officer of the City of Homburg. Instead of last year’s stamp card, QR codes at each station will be scanned to collect points. The Actionbound can be played in any order, paused, or stopped at any time. Additional points are earned with each correctly answered question.
Returning participants include Blume2000, Eine-Welt-Laden, Edeka Bittner, Jungs Bio, the district youth office, and the tourist information center. New additions are "CHEF KOCHT-Davids Kreativküche," the Christian-von-Mannlich-Gymnasium, and the packaging-free store. Anyone who completes all the stations can look forward to a small surprise at the tourist information center. Cooperation partners are the Biosphere Bliesgau Association and the Young Biosphere Bliesgau.
The Actionbound created by environmental educator Sylvia Lerchner is available until the end of Fair Weeks on September 30th. The annual theme of Fair Week, "Fair suits you – #fairtrade for human rights worldwide," is entirely focused on the 8th Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations: Decent work and economic growth. How catastrophic the conditions in textile industry factories truly are was demonstrated by the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh. This terrible event, which prompted a rethink in the textile sector, happened almost nine years ago. Although some positive changes have occurred, numerous human rights violations and environmental problems are still on the agenda. This is exactly what the station at Mannlich-Gymnasium is dealing with. “Before you finish your breakfast this morning, you are dependent on half the world,” Martin Luther King explained, “it matters how we dress and what we eat, as we express our values through these choices.” The cooperation partners are offering the city rally as an Actionbound for the first time to reach younger generations and convey these values. “The next generations are our future. Our actions will determine their tomorrow. We want to raise awareness about how fair and regional trade works and how one's own shopping affects the world. I wish the project good support and, in the spirit of sustainability, a continuation next year,” emphasizes District Administrator and Biosphere Reserve Association Chair Dr. Theophil Gallo, thanking everyone who made the event possible.
